Burns v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Jury and jurors. Charge of court. Practice in superior court. Officers. Policemen. Criminal law. Before Judge Adams. Chatham superior court. December term, 1886. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
1. Burns, being a policeman of the city of Savannah, was indicted for an assault and battery upon Burney, a colored man, committed in January, 1887. He was tried and convicted. His counsel made a motion for a new trial, *546on several grounds, which was overruled. One of the grounds draws after it several others, because the others are dependent upon it; the subject-matter of the whole of .these grounds being that one of the jurors, Charles Foster, by name, a colored person, was upon the jury improperly; that he was incompetent as a juror because he was an infant, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Stripling v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1887
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