Baughn v. State

Cobb, Justice.

At a special term of the superior court of Twiggs county in July, 1895, Elizabeth Robles was tried for the -offense of murder, and upon conviction was sentenced to death. The sentence “having been legally suspended and superseded by order of the court, the case came on to be heard before-the court” on June 23/1896, “for the purpose of passing sentence of death in accordance with the verdict of guilty rendered.” At this term Baughn, the plaintiff in error, as the next friend of the condemned woman, appeared, and in her behalf objected to the sentence of death being passed,, on…