Smalls v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Petition to quash inquest. Before Judge Falligant. Chat-ham county. April 21, 1897.
1Opinion of the CourtSimmons, C. J.
On February 11, 1894, an inquisition was taken in Chatham county, Georgia, before the coroner of that county, upon view of the body of J. C. Neve. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict that Neve “came to his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by a weapon in the hands of Abe • Small, and we consider it murder.”
On March 24, 1897, Smalls filed in the superior court a peti*571tion praying “that the said inquest and verdict may be quashed and that an order of melius inquirendum shall be granted by this court to the coroner of the county of Chatham, and that the said inquiry should be held by the…
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