Currie v. State

Lee Cnrrie was convicted on an indictment charging him with the murder of Burley Phillips. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and he excepted. The case has been before this court on three former occasions: Curry v. State, 150 Ga. 736 (105 S. E. 361); Currie v. State, 153 Ga. 178 (111 S. E. 727); Currie v. State, 156 Ga. 85 (118 S. E. 724).

At the commencement of the last trial the defendant formally admitted in open court that “the defendant, Lee Currie, killed Burley Phillips, and that he killed him in Toombs County, Georgia.” J. W. Kirby, who lived about 3-1/2 miles north of Claxton,…