Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Sunday freiglit-train. Evidence. Onus. Before Judge Atkinson. Pierce superior court. MareJi term, 1891. Reported iu the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
The indictment alleged that the defendant “ on the 3d day of March, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, was the officer of a railroad company, to-wit the Savannah, Elorida & "Western Railway Company, having in charge the department of transporta*788tión of the railroad of said railroad company ; and being such officer, a freight-train, in the State and county aforesaid (Pierce), on the date aforesaid, was run and did run on the railroad of said railroad company on the Sabbath day, known as Sunday, contrary to the laws of said State,” etc. This indictment was found at…
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