Cox v. State

Cox was indicted for murder, it being alleged that the accused, “in the county of Eulton and State of Georgia, on the 10th day of July, 1921, with force and arms, did unlawfully, with malice aforethought, kill and murder one Edward Burkhalter, by then and there shooting him, the said Edward Burkhalter, with a pistol, contrary to the laws of said State, the good order, peace, and dignity thereof.” Upon the trial, on November 6, 1922, he was convicted *145of assault with intent to murder, the jury in their verdict fixing his penalty at not less than five nor more than ten years in the penitentiary,…