Walthour v. State

Reid, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff in error was jointly indicted with Johnnie Felder for the murder of Norman Sapp. His trial resulted in a verdict of guilty, with recommendation of mercy, and he excepted to the overruling of his motion for new trial.

In the first special ground of the motion complaint is made “that the court erred in allowing a witness for the State, to wit, Paul H. Sikes, sheriff, to testify, over the objection of counsel for the defendant, that Norman Sapp [the deceased] . . was at one time tried, convicted, and sentenced to the chain-gang from the city court of Hinesville,…