Conner v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for simple larceny, in Sumter Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, March Term, 1858. At the March Term, 1858, Abner C. Conner was put upon his trial, on an indictment for stealing a negro man slave, the property of John F. Markett.
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Indictment for simple larceny, in Sumter Superior Court. Tried before Judge Allen, March Term, 1858. At the March Term, 1858, Abner C. Conner was put upon his trial, on an indictment for stealing a negro man slave, the property of John F. Markett. The special presentment charged the offence to have been committed on the fifteenth day of December, 1857, and is dated September Term, 1857. The bill of indictment is dated September Term, 1857, and charges the offence to have been committed on the fifteenth day of December 1855. The defendant pleaded “ not guilty.” It was in evidence from the…
1Opinion of the Court
*520 By the■ Court.
Lumpkin, J.
delivering the opinion.
Overruling as we do, all the grounds in the writ of error, we deem it necessary to notice particularly a few of them only.
The first is, as to the taking down of the testimony as required by law in cases of felony. The old rule was, and we hold it to be the true practice in such cases, to read over carefully to each witness, the testimony as taken down by the amanuensis. If it be correct very well; otherwise let it be made so. If a disagreement takes place, in the course of the-trial between counsel or in the jury box, let the witness be…
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