Jackson v. State

Jackson, Chief Justice.

Dock Jackson was one of the guards of the convict camp on the Chattahoochee river near Atlanta. He was, with one other guard, in charge of some sixteen convicts *475engaged in emptying and filling cans with water from the river, when the cry was heard, “ Man in the river.” He went down to the bank, from which he had called the other convicts to move higher up on the hill-side, and shot the deceased. He was convicted of murder, and on the denial of a new trial by the presiding judge, the case is before us for review here.

1. The great questions in the case are whether the…