Davis v. State

Mobley, Justice.

Herring Davis, under an indictment charging him with the murder of George Frank Hall, Sr., by-shooting him with a .22 rifle, was found guilty without a recommendation of mercy, and was sentenced to death by electrocution. His motion for new trial on the general grounds only was denied, and the bill of exceptions assigns error on this judgment. Held:

The evidence was ample to support the verdict of guilty. M. F. Hale and H. A. Poole, of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, and Howard Norris, Sheriff of Meriwether County, testified that the defendant had confessed having killed…