Jackson v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Principal in the second degree. New trial. Before Judge Clark. Lee Superior Court. March Term, 1874. The principle involved in this caséis so succinctly stated in the above head-note that a report is deemed unnecessary.
1Opinion of the Court
McCay, Judge.
There is some little confusion in the books as to the use of a verdict of guilty or acquittal of the principal in the first degree on the trial of the principal in the second degree. It is decided in 28 Georgia Reports, 217, that the acquittal of the principal in the-first degree is not a bar to the trial of the principal in the second degree; whilst in 7 Georgia, 3, it is decided that the record of the conviction of the principal in the first degree is not only competent evidence against the principal in the second, but it makes out a prima facie case of his (the principal’s in…
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