114 Ga. 6 | Ga. | 1901
It appears from the record, that Render, a policeman in the City of Savannah, while on duty heard a pistol-shot two blocks from the street which he was patrolling. Immediately thereafter he saw a person running toward him from the direction in which the pistol had been fired. Render was in the uniform of a policeman, and approached and attempted to arrest the runner, when he was shot and killed by that person. Brooks, the plaintiff in error, was subsequently arrested, and was indicted, tried, and convicted of the murder. There was considerable circumstantial evidence which tended to establish that Brooks was the person who shot the policeman, and the direct testimony of one witness to that effect. .It was proved that Brooks had shot a man by the name of Burns two blocks away from where Fender was killed, and that immediately after shooting,Burns, which, was at about two o’clock in the morning, Brooks ran in the direction of Fender. Brooks was arrested a few minutes after Fender was shot. After conviction Brooks made a motion for a new trial. This was overruled, and he excepted.
Judgment affirmed.