Stephens v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Accusation of misdemeanor; from city court of Monroe—Judge -Stone. January 4, 1918. T[ie accusation charged Bay Stephens with “the offense of misdemeanor, decoying, persuading, and enticing” a farm laborer, for that the defendant, on the 3d day of September, 1917, in Walton county, Georgia, “by requesting'and urging said Judge Broughton to go home with him and work out a balance which he claimed said Judge Broughton was due him, and by then and there including [inducing ?].…
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Accusation of misdemeanor; from city court of Monroe—Judge -Stone. January 4, 1918. T[ie accusation charged Bay Stephens with “the offense of misdemeanor, decoying, persuading, and enticing” a farm laborer, for that the defendant, on the 3d day of September, 1917, in Walton county, Georgia, “by requesting'and urging said Judge Broughton to go home with him and work out a balance which he claimed said Judge Broughton was due him, and by then and there including [inducing ?]. said Judge Broughton to get into the car in 'the possession of and being run by said Bay Stephens, did entice and…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
1. The demurrer to the accusation was properly overruled.
2. “This court can not consider exceptions to the refusal of the trial judge to comply with written requests to charge, unless it is made to appear that they were tendered to the court before the jury retired to consider the ease. Shirley v. State, 5 Ga. App, 611 (63 S. E. 583). In this case it is not disclosed that the written requests to charge were so tendered.” Seaboard Air-Line Ry. v. Barrow, 18 Ga. App. 261 (4) (89 S. E. 383) ; Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. Lyon, 18 Ga. App. 266 (6), 267 (89 S. E. 384).
3. There was some evidence…
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- Johnson v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1892
- Youmans v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1909
- Seaboard Air-Line Railway v. BarrowCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1916
- Carter v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1913
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