Smith v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Worley. Oglethorpe superior court. November 25, 1917.
1Opinion of the CourtAtkinson, J.
1. On the trial of Jack Smith for the murder of Mike Martin, the court admitted in evidence, over objection, a paper purporting to be the report of the testimony of Ola Chambers, a witness for the State, delivered on a former trial of the case in the same court, as reproduced from the notes made by the official court stenographer; also the testimony of certain witnesses who professed to have heard and remembered the substance of the testimony above mentioned so delivered on the former trial, stating from memory what the witness had testified. Preliminary to the introduction of the evidence,…
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