Barfield v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for obtaining chattels by color of counterfeit writing. Tried before Judge Worrill, in Taylor Superior Court, April Term, 1S59. The substance of the testimony submitted to the jury on the trial of this case was as follows: On the 9th of March, •1859, the plaintiff in error, John Barfield, and Warren Bar-field, went to the house of John Hudson, in the county of Taylor, and proposed to buy a mule from Hudson.
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Indictment for obtaining chattels by color of counterfeit writing. Tried before Judge Worrill, in Taylor Superior Court, April Term, 1S59. The substance of the testimony submitted to the jury on the trial of this case was as follows: On the 9th of March, •1859, the plaintiff in error, John Barfield, and Warren Bar-field, went to the house of John Hudson, in the county of Taylor, and proposed to buy a mule from Hudson. Hudson declined to sell the mule, because it belonged to his son Roland. John Barfield then proposed to buy the pony of John Hudson, saying he h'ad one hundred and fifty dollars…
1Opinion of the Court
Benning J.
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.^
The motion for a new trial embraces all of the exceptions in the case. The question, therefore, whether the Court be*131low was right in refusing that motion, will include all the questions in the case.
[1.] The first ground of the motion was the charge of the Court. That charge amounts to this: that if the defendant procured Slaughter Hill, the boy, to make the notes, with the intention to use them in the purchase of property, as the notes of another Slaughter Hill, the brother of Archer Hill, the notes were forged.
The evidence showed that the notes…
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