Brown v. State

Decided March 22, 1906

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1906-03-22

Indictment for assault with intent to murder. Before Judge Hammond. Richmond superior court. December 18, 1905. Clara Brown was convicted on an indictment under the Penal Code, §81, charging her with assault with intent to murder Maude Jones, a woman pregnant with a child, by using upon her an instrument with intent thereby to destroy the child.

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Decided 1906-03-22

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Fish, C. J.

¶1The 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.

¶2Judgment 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.