Keller v. State

In the case of Johnson v. State, 14 Ga. 62, this court stated the rule regarding the sequestration of witnesses to be, that while the State, before the examination commences, “may-demand that the witnesses should retire, in order to each being questioned in the absence of the others,” the court was not bound, at the instance of the accused, to take any action in the premises, though a request on his part that an ordér looking to this end be passed might very properly be granted “ as matter of indulgence and not of right.” Since the adoption of our code, a much more equitable practice has been…