Johnson v. State

Judgment affirmed.

Criminal law. Murder. Evidence. Verdict. Before Judge Hutchins. Clarke superior court. April adjourned term, 1891.

Johnson was indicted for the murder of one Webb, and it was charged in the indictment that the killing was done with a Winchester rifle. He was found guilty, and moved for a new trial. His motion was overruled, and he excepted. In addition to the general grounds that the verdict was contrary to law, evidence, etc., it was insisted in the motion that the evidence failed to show that the deceased was shot with a Winchester rifle as alleged in the bill of…