Summerlin v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Conviction of involuntary manslaughter; from Clarke superior court — Judge Cobb. June 21, 1919. Application for certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court.
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Conviction of involuntary manslaughter; from Clarke superior court — Judge Cobb. June 21, 1919. Application for certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court. Under an indictment in three counts, charging respectively (1) murder, (2) involuntary manslaughter in the commission of an unlawful act, and (3) assault with intent to murder, alleged to have been committed upon a pregnant woman by the use of instruments with the intent to produce a miscarriage and abortion, Summerlin was found guilty upon the second count, and found not guilty upon each of the other counts. The second count is set out in…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
1. One of the grounds of the motion for a new trial alleges error as follows: “Because the court refused to allow the witness W. E. Jackson, sheriff of Clarke county, while on the stand as a witness for the State, to -answer the following question propounded to him by movant’s counsel, to wit: Q. ‘When and how did he (Dr. M. T. Summerlin) come into your, custody as sheriff and jailer of this county? Movant then and there insisted and stated to the court that if the witness was permitted to answer said question, he would testify that, ’after the presentment was found against the defendant M.…
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