Lee v. State

John Edgar Lee was indicted in the Superior Court of Jefferson County for the murder of one Nathaniel Sams. The defendant filed a special plea to the jurisdiction, contending that the homicide occurred in Washington County, Georgia, and a general plea of not guilty. Upon the trial of these issues the juries found against the plea to the jurisdiction and returned a verdict of guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Counsel for the defendant in his brief in this court specifically abandons all assignments of error except as to the charge of the court as follows: “I also charge you, gentlemen, that…