Johns v. Johns
Supreme Court of Georgia
Libel for divorce. Tried before Judge Cochran, at the October Term, 1859, of Charlton Superior Court. This was a libel for divorce, by George Johns, Sen’r, against Lucinda Johns, his wife, on the ground that said Lucinda had attempted to poison libellant. There was an amendment to the libel, charging respondent with adultery.
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Libel for divorce. Tried before Judge Cochran, at the October Term, 1859, of Charlton Superior Court. This was a libel for divorce, by George Johns, Sen’r, against Lucinda Johns, his wife, on the ground that said Lucinda had attempted to poison libellant. There was an amendment to the libel, charging respondent with adultery. Upon the trial, libellant offered in evidence the following testimony: George Johns, Junior, son of libellant, testified: That he saw a man by the name of Wheeler kiss respondent, in the house of libellant; and that respondent had put the strychnine in coffee and biscuit…
1Opinion of the Court
— Lumpkin J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] The testimony of George Johns, Junior, the son of the plaintiff, is so contradictory and confused, that 1 scarcely deem it necessary to analyze it minutely. It would be dangerous in the extreme, to put asunder what God has joined together, upon such proof.
Much of it should have been rejected, especially the information which Mrs. Wheeler gave to him, that strychnine was put in the biscuit and coffee. And that was all the knowledge he had upon the subject. The communication led to no discovery whatever. For the fact was not proven that the…
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