Lee v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Verdict. Before Judge Willis. Marion Superior Court. October Term, 1885. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was indicted, tried and convicted of murdering her child, by the superior court of Marion county. The accused moved the court for a new trial on several grounds, which the court overruled, and she excepted and assigns error thereon.
1. There is a total failure in the evidence to establish the corpus delicti.
This must be established beyond a reasonable doubt. The evidence shows that Mary Lee had been delivered of a child. The child was found some three hundred yards from her house under a buggy; it was alive and in a healthy condition; it was examined…
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