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198 Ga. 714

Jackson v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 5, 1945

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1945-01-05

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1983

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Decided 1945-01-05

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Grice, Justice.

¶11. On the trial of a person accused of the crime of rape, the person alleged to have been assaulted having- testified that directly after the assault she went to a hospital where she was given an injection of a strong solution in her female organs, and that “that return came hack and ran over my hand. I especially did that for a purpose. Semen, discharge was in that solution” — an objection to the testimony on the ground that the semen itself would be the highest and *715best evidence, and that the evidence amounted to a mere conclusion, was properly overruled.

No. 14975.January 5, 1945.Francis T. Fife and Burr ess & Dillard, for plaintiff in error.T. Grady Head, attorney-general, John A. Boylcin, solicitor-general, E. E. Andrews, Durwood T. Pye, and Victor Davidson, assistant attorney-general, contra.

¶22. The evidence authorized the verdict.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.
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