Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Mitchell — motion for new trial before Judge Merrill. Lowndes superior court. October SO, 1910. Tom Jackson was found guilty upon an indictment charging him with murder. The decedent alleged to have been murdered was Gertrude Jackson, the wife of the accused.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Mitchell — motion for new trial before Judge Merrill. Lowndes superior court. October SO, 1910. Tom Jackson was found guilty upon an indictment charging him with murder. The decedent alleged to have been murdered was Gertrude Jackson, the wife of the accused. TJpon the trial of the ease the following evidence was introduced: Fred Childs, a witness for the State, testified that he was accompanying Gertrude Jackson to her home on the night when the homicide occurred; that when he reached a certain location in the town of Valdosta he saw a man standing between…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
1. Under the facts of this ease, a statement of irrelevant evidence voluntarily made by a witness, and in regard to which, upon objection being made by counsel for the defendant, the solicitor-general said, in the hearing of the jury, “We have no objection to that going out,” no further ruling of the court being invoked by counsel for the accused, is not ground for a new trial merely because the court failed to reprimand the witness or to caution the jury against being influenced by the irrelevant testimony.
2. Where a husband find's his wife at night in company with a man, and the wife then…
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