Danforth v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal Law. Indictment. Practice in Superior Court. Pleadings. Constitutional Law. Insanity. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1885. The facts of this case are sufficiently reported in the decision.
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Criminal Law. Indictment. Practice in Superior Court. Pleadings. Constitutional Law. Insanity. Before Judge Simmons. Bibb Superior Court. April Term, 1885. The facts of this case are sufficiently reported in the decision. The following extracts from the charge of the court below will show the manner in which the question of the defendant’s sanity or insanity was submitted to the jury: “This defendant says to the jury that he could not entertain malice in his mind at the time, by reason of his mind being so deranged, so disordered by disease, that he did not have capacity enough to form that…
1Opinion of the Court
Hall, Justice.
The prisoner was indicted, tried and found guilty of the murder of William Landsberg, and by the direction of the jury was sentenced' to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. Upon his arraignment,he filed two special pleas;
*618The first set forth that the indictment on which he was about to be arraigned was never returned into court by the grand jury, bitt was brought in by their bailiff and handed to the clerk, and that he, therefore, entered it on the minutes of the court, at which time none of the grand jurors were present, neither their foreman, nor a quorum of the body,…
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