Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
New trial. Sentence. Before Judge Kiddoo. Randolph Superior Court. November Adjourned Term, 1873. Eldridge Jackson was placed on trial for the offense of murder alleged to have been committed upon the person of his wife, Ann Jackson, on December 29th, 1873. The defendant. pleaded not guilty. The evidence was purely circumstantial, but very conclusive as to the homicide having been committed by the defendant.
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New trial. Sentence. Before Judge Kiddoo. Randolph Superior Court. November Adjourned Term, 1873. Eldridge Jackson was placed on trial for the offense of murder alleged to have been committed upon the person of his wife, Ann Jackson, on December 29th, 1873. The defendant. pleaded not guilty. The evidence was purely circumstantial, but very conclusive as to the homicide having been committed by the defendant. The deed was done in a drunken frolic growing out of the Christmas festivities. The defendant came home to supper intoxicated and fired off his pistol in the house. Soon 'after a second…
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
1. We are not prepared to say that the verdict in this case is so- contrary to, or so unsupported by, evidence, that the judge erred in refusing to set it aside. One of the witnesses *197hears a shot; he hurries to the place indicated by the sound, which is only a few yards off, and finds at the door a woman with a mortal wound made by a bullet. He sees running out of the yard by the back way, the prisoner, who is almost immediately after arrested, with a pistol in his hand recently discharged. On his arrest the prisoner is told he is charged with killing his wife; he does not deny…
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