Robison v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Evans. Washington superior court. October 5, 1901.
1Opinion of the CourtFish, J.
John Eobison and Tom Hunter were jointly indicted for murder. Hunter disappeared, and Eobison, upon his trial, was found guilty. His motion for a new trial being overruled, he excepted.
1. On the trial the accused sought to impeach two of the State’s witnesses, by showing that their testimony given upon the committal trial was, as to material facts, contradictory to their testimony in the trial now under review. In the motion for a new trial error was alleged because the court wholly failed to charge the law relative to the impeachment of witnesses. In Smith v. Page, 72 Ga. 539, it was held:…
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