Price v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Evidence. Res Gestes. Practice in Superior Court. New Trial. Impeachment. Before Judge Carswell. Johnson Superior Court. September Term, 1883 Warren Price was indicted for the murder of Romanus F. Perry, alleged to have been committed on August 27, 1882. The evidence for the state was, in brief, as follows: Perry was the son-in-law of Price.
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Criminal Law. Evidence. Res Gestes. Practice in Superior Court. New Trial. Impeachment. Before Judge Carswell. Johnson Superior Court. September Term, 1883 Warren Price was indicted for the murder of Romanus F. Perry, alleged to have been committed on August 27, 1882. The evidence for the state was, in brief, as follows: Perry was the son-in-law of Price. After a brief married life, lasting only a few months, Perry’s wife left him, and returned to her father’s house, which was several miles distant from that of her husband. She went thither riding on horseback behind one Mandel Powell, who…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Chief Justice.
Warren Price was found guilty of murder; moving for a new trial, it was denied him by the presiding judge; to that denial he excepted, and the case is here for review. The wife of deceased had left him and gone back to her father’s'house, riding on horseback behind a man who seems to have been intimate with her to an extent unbecoming wifely modesty. Price, the defendant, was that father, and the difficulty between father and husband arose out of alienation of good will on account of this domestic trouble, and eventuated in the homicide by the defendant, on the occasion…
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