77 Ga. 596 | Ga. | 1887
The plaintiff in error was indicted by the grand j ury of the county of Ware for the offence of murder, in that it was alleged he had killed and murdered his daughter, Maria Daley. The j ury found him guilty, and recommended imprisonment in the penitentiary for life ; and such was the judgment of the court. The testimony of the State showed that, on the 5th of January, 1885, Wade Daley, the husband of the deceased, and the accused had a conversation, in which the accused agreed to go to a certain mill after his daughter, Daley’s wife. This was in the afternoon of that day. It further showed that he went to a certain church which was two miles off; there he saw his son and requested him to go into the church and tell the deceased to come out. When she came out, he took her by the sleeve, and they started in the direction of his house. About dark, Daley.- the husband, asked him where the deceased was, and why he did not bring her home. He replied that she had refused to come and left him, that he left her about the crossing, down about the boxes (a turpentine orchard, known as the boxes). The next morning, the accused left home. The next time he was seen was in the city of Savannah; and while there, near the depot, he confessed to Peter Likely that he had killed his daughter, and that he went to church and got her, and on his way home she made him mad, and the devil got possession of him and he killed her. The body of the deceased was found, some three weeks after, her disappearance, about half way between the church and the house of the accused.
Judgment affirmed.