139 Ga. 104 | Ga. | 1912
Johnnie B. Jones was tried under an indictment charging him with the murder of Wiley Bishop. It appeared that at the time of the killing of Bishop the defendant, his uncle Thomas Jones, Bishop, and other persons were present in a room then occupied by Mabel Turner, a woman of loose character; that an altercation arose between Thomas J ones and Bishop; that language of an insulting character and opprobrious epithets were used by Thomas Jones of and to Bishop, and that upon the application of an opprobrious epithet by Thomas J ones to Bishop both men arose from the position in which they then were, or partially arose, and drew their pistols, and that, Thomas Jones’s pistol being drawn, a shot was fired. There was evidence to show that Thomas Jones and Bishop, upon the sudden quarrel which sprang up between them, in the language of one witness, “went for their guns.” Thomas Jones was tried for shooting Bishop, and, at a term of court anterior to that at which the present case was tried, was convicted of the offense of murder. On the trial of Thomas Jones
Except as indicated above, no error is shown to have been committed by the court in the trial of the case.
Judgment reversed.