Linsley v. State

Ellis, J.-

In April, 1923, the plaintiff in error, Linsley, was indicted for the murder of William R. Pickles and was convicted of murder in the second degree. A Writ of Error was taken to the judgment. There are thirty-eight assign*137ments of error; one of which rests upon the order overruling a motion for a new trial which itself contains thirty-one grounds.

The case was a very simple one and the material facts few. The plaintiff in error, who about two> years and a half before the homicide moved from the State of Georgia near Yaldosta and settled in Madison County, near Mosley Hall, became…