Turner v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Continuance. Attorney and Client. Evidence. Witness. Charge of- Court. Jurors. Before Judge Harris. Meriwether Superior Court. December Special Term, 1882. Pleasant M. Turner was indicted for the murder of John E. Shuttles. On the trial, the evidence showed that the defendant shot Shuttles in the back with a pistol and killed him.
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Criminal Law. Continuance. Attorney and Client. Evidence. Witness. Charge of- Court. Jurors. Before Judge Harris. Meriwether Superior Court. December Special Term, 1882. Pleasant M. Turner was indicted for the murder of John E. Shuttles. On the trial, the evidence showed that the defendant shot Shuttles in the back with a pistol and killed him. The defence was that the deceased and defendant had had numerous difficulties; that, before the killing, the deceased had threatened the life of defendant ;• that he had pursued the defendant about the town of Greenville on the day of the killing, was…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
The defendant was indicted for murder, found guilty, and sentenced to suffer capital punishment therefor.
1. The verdict is supported by evidence enough to uphold it, and, therefore, is not contrary to law because without that support. It remains, then, to see whether it be illegal and should be set aside, because of some illegal ruling of the presiding judge, by which the preservation of law and the ends of justice make a new trial proper. The case will be reviewed by us on the points grouped and argued by the able and distinguished counsel who pressed, with great…
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