Jordan v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Bawlings. Washington superior court. December 12, 1907.
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, P. J.
Zack Jordan was convicted of the murder of Albert Brown, with a' recommendation of life imprisonment. The court refused a new trial, and he excepts.
1, 2. Several of his grounds relate to the court’s instruction on reasonable doubt, — complaining that the definition of a reasonable doubt was inaccurate, and especially erroneous because the court omitted to inform the jury that a reasonable doubt might.arise from the prisoner’s statement. The court charged the jury on the weight which might be given to the prisoner’s statement. The. coiirt’s definition of a reasonable doubt is substantially…
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