144 Ga. 582 | Ga. | 1916
Ed Montford and John Gardner were jointly.indicted for the murder of Herschel Beacham. Upon the trial of Montford a verdict of guilty, with á recommendation that he be imprisoned for life, was rendered. John Gardner was the- only ej^e-witness to the 'killing, introduced on the trial. Numerous other witnesses testified to facts claimed by the State to be corroborative of the evidence of Gardner; and the record is swollen to large proportions with evidence offered to establish -certain facts contended by the State to be corroborative of the sole eyewitness to the homicide. The defendant contended that Gardner was shown to be an accomplice, and insisted that no conviction could be had unless this witness was corroborated in one of the ways required by law for the corroboration of an accomplice. The State insisted, on the .other hand, that Gardner, though he was present and did certain acts which might have made him a prin
Judgment reversed.