Bowden v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Park. • Putnam superior court. October 28, 1920.
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, P. J.
Dave Bowden was tried under an indictment charging him with the offense of murder, and the jury trying the case returned a verdict of guilty, without recommendation. He was thereupon by the court sentenced to be hanged. A motion for a new trial was-made and overruled.
1. A. J. Walton, sheriff, testified as follows: “ I was sheriff at the time this man [the accused] was in my charge. There was no hope of reward held out to him at the time by me, or any one else, to make a statement to me. I asked him why he killed the woman, what the trouble was, and he gave me his pocket-book, with three…
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