Mathis v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Assault, &c. in Baker Superior Court. Tried before Judge Perkins, May Term, 1855. Mathis was indicted, tried, and convicted of an assault with intent to commit a rape upon a little girl under the age of consent.
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Assault, &c. in Baker Superior Court. Tried before Judge Perkins, May Term, 1855. Mathis was indicted, tried, and convicted of an assault with intent to commit a rape upon a little girl under the age of consent. A motion was made for a new trial upon several grounds, to only two of which was the attention of the Supreme Court called— 1st. That the Jury, after retiring, were corruptly tampered with, by James J. Keaton, who offered a bribe of $500, and induced them, by threats, and other promises and means, to return a verdict of guilty. 2d. That one of the Jury, viz : Wm. Everett, was the…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Starnes, J.
delivering the opinion.
The objection taken to the Juror, Everett, seems to have-*345been abandoned by the Counsel for the plaintiff in error,. (very properly so, we think,) and therefore, we shall not remark upon it.
[1.] The first of the two grounds which were pressed upontíie attention of the Court, was that a new trial should have been granted, because, as was alleged by the plaintiff in error’,. the Jux-y had been tampered with by James J. Keaton.
In connection with this, we have considered the objection to the admission of the affidavits made by the five Jurors, and by…
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