Marshall v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Murder. Charge of Court. Practice in Superior Court. Practice in Supreme Court. Sentence. Before Judge Brown. Cherokee Superior Court. February Term, 1884. Jerry Marshall was indicted for the murder of James L>. Cheney, a negro child between two and three years of age.
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Criminal Law. Murder. Charge of Court. Practice in Superior Court. Practice in Supreme Court. Sentence. Before Judge Brown. Cherokee Superior Court. February Term, 1884. Jerry Marshall was indicted for the murder of James L>. Cheney, a negro child between two and three years of age. On the trial, the evidence for the state was, in brief, as follows: The mother of the dead child had been living with the defendant, though not married to him, for about two months before the child’s death. She had two children, the one now deceased and a little girl some years older, neither of whom were akin to…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The defendant in the court below was indicted and tried, and found guilty of murder, and the jury failing to recommend a lower punishment, he was sentenced to death. A motion was made for a new trial, on various grounds, and overruled, and to the judgment overruling this motion he excepted and brought the case to this court.
1. There is sufficient evidence to support this finding, and the court committed no error in refusing the motion upon the grounds that the verdict was contrary to evidence, etc. The court charged, at the request of defendant’s counsel, “ that in all cases of…
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