Coxwell v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Indictment. Evidence. Prisoner’s statement. Practice in Superior Court. Before Judge POTTLE. Wilkes Superior Court. May Adjourned Term, 1880. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Crawford, Justice.
John D. Coxwell, Ernest Walker, Newton Nichols and James Blackburn were indicted for the murder of John Turner alias John F. Awtrey in February, 1880. Walker *311was tried and convicted, Nichols accepted a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy, Blackburn became a witness for the state and was pardoned. Upon the trial of Coxwell, the plaintiff in error in this case, he was convicted, and made a motion for a new trial, which' was refused, and he excepted.'
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