Peters v. State

Wyatt, Presiding Justice.

S. F. Peters was charged in Newton Superior Court with the crime of murder. The jury upon the trial returned a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy. His motion for new trial was duly denied. The exception here is to that judgment. The evidence adduced by the State showed substantially as follows: The defendant and the deceased were living together apparently as man and wife. On the night of the alleged crime, H. M. Knight was spending the night in the home of the defendant and deceased. After they had all retired for the night, several men drove into the…