Brown v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Brown v. State

53 S.E. 767, 125 Ga. 8, 1906 Ga. LEXIS 11

CourtSupreme Court of Georgia

DecidedMarch 22, 1906

StatusPublished

Cited by1 cases

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Brown v. State, 53 S.E. 767, 125 Ga. 8, 1906 Ga. LEXIS 11 (Ga. 1906).

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Opinion

Fish, C. J.

The evidence was not of such character as to show the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt, and a new trial should have been granted on this ground.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur.

The motion for a new trial, to the overruling of which the accused excepted, was on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence, and that the court erred in allowing Della Jones to testify to her statement to the accused, that the deceased had charged the accused with having attempted abortion on her.

George T. Jackson, for plaintiff in error. J. 8. Reynolds, solicitor-general, contra.

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