Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Larceny. Jurors. Attorney and client. Practice in the Superior Court. Evidence. Before Judge Grice. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1877. An indictment was found against Lundy and Williams, charging them with simple larceny in taking and carrying away one red and white yearling heifer cow, marked with smooth cross in • both ears, of the value of $15.00, the property of Edmund Gordon. Williams was placed on trial; and pleaded not guilty.
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Criminal law. Larceny. Jurors. Attorney and client. Practice in the Superior Court. Evidence. Before Judge Grice. Bibb Superior Court. October Term, 1877. An indictment was found against Lundy and Williams, charging them with simple larceny in taking and carrying away one red and white yearling heifer cow, marked with smooth cross in • both ears, of the value of $15.00, the property of Edmund Gordon. Williams was placed on trial; and pleaded not guilty. There was evidence to show that the cow was killed by one of the defendants, probably Lundy, and dragged some fifteen or twenty steps into…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Judge.
1. The Code declares, section 4681, that “ on calling each juror, he shall be presented to the accused in such manner that he can distinctly see him, and it shall then be lawful for the state, or the accused, to make either of the following objections ” (specifying them). Section 4684 prescribes, that “ if found competent and not challenged peremptorily by the state, he shall be put upon the prisoner, and unless challenged peremptorily by him, shall be sworn to try the *372cause.” This shows that jurors are to be driven upon the prisoner in single file, and not in platoons. He is…
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