Milner v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Reagan. Spalding superior court. August 28, 1905. cited .2 Stark. Ev. (6th Am. ed.) 27; Whart. Cr. L. (6th ed.) 489, 694; 1 Gr. Ev. (16th ed.) 361; 6 Am. & Eng. Ene. L. (2d ed.) 542; 53 L. R. A. 402; 118 Qa. 807; 121 Qa. 615. cited Ga. R. 21/227; 87/622; 91/278; 92/32; 93/208; 122/564.
1Opinion of the CourtBeoK, J.
Ralph Milner was tried on an indictment for murder, and convicted. The State proved the corpus delicti by several witnesses, and proved a confession of the defendant by one witness, the sheriff of the county, and also by another witness, one Terrell, that the defendant in jiis statement on a preliminary trial circumstantially and positively admitted and confessed the crime with which he was charged. In the incriminating statement upon the preliminary trial the defendant averred that when he killed the deceased, one Rufe Farley, who at the time was armed with a gun, commanded him to do the…
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