Lampkin v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Cox. Decatur superior court. February 9, 1916. Will Lampkin was indicted for the murder of Annie Lampkin, his wife. Upon the trial of the case the State introduced eye-witnesses whose testimony showed an unprovoked killing of the decedent by the accused.
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Indictment for murder. Before Judge Cox. Decatur superior court. February 9, 1916. Will Lampkin was indicted for the murder of Annie Lampkin, his wife. Upon the trial of the case the State introduced eye-witnesses whose testimony showed an unprovoked killing of the decedent by the accused. There was also testimony showing that the wife of the accused was staying in a house of a lewd character, that on the night when she was killed she occupied a bed in a room with the tenant of the house, a woman named Mollie Kimbrell, and that besides the decedent and Mollie Kimbrell two children of the…
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.)
1. When the witness Seabell Kimbrell was on the stand she was permitted, over objection, to testify that the accused shot the mother of the witness just before shooting the woman for whose murder he was on trial; and the admission of this evidence over objection is complained of in the motion for a new trial. There is no merit in the exception. The shooting of the mother of the witness and the woman for whose murder the defendant was being tried took place so near together that the shooting of the first was a part of the res gestae of the transaction which…
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