Fountain v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
1Opinion of the Court
Felton, Justice.
Fannie Lee Fountain was indicted, tried and convicted of the murder of her husband, Frank Fountain, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The appeal is from the judgment overruling her motion for new trial as amended.
1. The overruling of the general grounds of the motion (enumerated error 1) is not here ruled on because the evidence may not be the same on the new trial hereby granted in Division 4 hereinafter.
2. The exclusion of two jurors, whose answers to questions propounded by the district attorney made it clear that they would under no circumstances imaginable impose…
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