Legal Opinion

Plummer v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided June 4, 1900PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Petition for certiorari. Before Judge Hart. Laurens superior court. March 14, 1900.

1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.

1. Where a grand jury had under investigation a criminal charge, and a witness swore to a certain state of facts material to the issue and the same witness afterward, upon the trial of the issue on the indictment found by the grand jury, swore to a different and contrary state of facts concerning the same issue, and that his testimony before the grand jury was false¡ assigning as the reason for his false testimony before the grand' jury that he was at that time a friend of the’accused but was at the time of the trial at enmity with him, it was error for the court to fail to charge the jury…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Skipper v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1877
  2. Stafford v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1876

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Smaha v. GeorgeSupreme Court of Georgia · 1943
  2. Robison v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1901
  3. Kelly v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1916
  4. Bull & Son v. CarpenterCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1924
  5. State v. BoylesIdaho Supreme Court · 1921

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