Taylor v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Murder. Evidence. Insanity. Witness. Charge of court. Practice. Before Judge Boynton. Washington superior court. March term, 1889. J. D. E. Taylor was indicted for the murder of W. I. Cone. The evidence for the State showed, in brief, as follows : On the day and in the county charged in the indictment, Taylor killed Cone and Dr. Robson by shooting them with a pistol.
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Criminal law. Murder. Evidence. Insanity. Witness. Charge of court. Practice. Before Judge Boynton. Washington superior court. March term, 1889. J. D. E. Taylor was indicted for the murder of W. I. Cone. The evidence for the State showed, in brief, as follows : On the day and in the county charged in the indictment, Taylor killed Cone and Dr. Robson by shooting them with a pistol. That morning, Dr. Robson and Cone got into a buggy with a witness and went to a grocery, where they staid fifteen or twenty minutes, Robson and Cone getting some whiskey. As they drove away, Robson said he wanted to…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the county of *654Washington for murder, in that he killed and murdered one W. I. Cone. He pleaded not guilty. The jury upon the trial of the case found him guilty, and he was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Ho thereupon moved the court for a new trial, which being denied, he prosecuted the writ of error, to have the judgment of the court below reviewed and reversed.
1. The first ground is that the verdict is strongly and decidedly against the weight of the evidence and without evidence to support the saíne; and the…
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