Griffin v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Bennet. Glynn superior court. February 19, 1901. Fricie Griffin was charged with the murder of R. M. Latimer, and was found guilty. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The testimony showed, in brief, as follows: Latimer was the conductor of a passenger-train on which the accused was discovered by Brock, the flagman, to be stealing a ride upon the front end of the baggage-car.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Bennet. Glynn superior court. February 19, 1901. Fricie Griffin was charged with the murder of R. M. Latimer, and was found guilty. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The testimony showed, in brief, as follows: Latimer was the conductor of a passenger-train on which the accused was discovered by Brock, the flagman, to be stealing a ride upon the front end of the baggage-car. Brock caught hold of him and tried to pull him inside, but he jerked back. Brock asked him where he was going, and he answered that he was going to Brunswick.…
1Opinion of the CourtCobb, J.
1. After a careful reading of the evidence in this case we are satisfied that there was nothing proved which would have authorized the jury to find the accused guilty of the offense of manslaughter; and therefore the failure of the judge to charge the law relating to that offense was not erroneous. It is therefore unnecessary to determine whether the admission in open court by counsel for the accused, that the case as made by the evidence was one where the accused was either guilty of murder or was justifiable, would have been a sufficient reason for the judge to fail to charge the law of…
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