Brantley v. Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OTP TOP, STATE OF GEORGIA. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Per curiam
Brantley was indicted in the Superior Court of Washington County, Georgia, charged with the offense of murder; was tried and found guilty of voluntary manslaughter; filed a motion for new trial, and upon appeal to the state Court of Appeals obtained a reversal of the judgment, and a new trial was ordered.
At the second trial he filed a plea of former jeopardy, claiming that he had been tried for murder, and having been found guilty of a lesser grade of homicide that operated to acquit him of the charge of murder, and to try him again for murder under the same indictment would be to try him…
2Cited by39 opinions
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