Nixon v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for. murder; from Hart superior court — Judge Meadow. October 11, 1913.
1Opinion of the Court
Roan J.
During the night of August 3, 1912, in the public road, near the house of Bud Harbin, in Hart county, Georgia, John Heaton was shot and killed, Henry Nixon firing the fatal shot, and Ellis Nixon being present. A sister of these Nixons was the wife of Heaton, and some time before the killing she left him and went with her infant to the home of her father, and for the time being was making it her home. There is evidence that the deceased was a man of violent character, which was aggravated when he was drinking, and on the night of the tragedy he was under the influence of liquor. He was…
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