Freeman v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. • Charge of Court. New Trial. Before Judge Branham. Floyd Superior Court. March Term. 1883. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The prisoner and deceased, eonfined in the chain-gang of Floyd county, were engaged in working the road, the latter digging up dirt with a pick, and the former throwing it into a cart with a shovel, when an altercation arose. The prisoner accused the deceased of being in his way ; alleged that this was frequent. The deceased repelled the accusation, using, according to some of the witnesses for the defence, coarse and vulgar language, and threatening to stick his pick in the rumps of some of his fellow-prisoners. He made no demonstration to that end; got back three or four feet…
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