138 Ga. 815 | Ga. | 1912
The defendant was convicted of murder, and life imprisonment in the penitentiary was recommended by the jury. He was a man of mature years; his exact age is not disclosed in the record, but it does appear that one of his witnesses was a grandson. The decedent was a youth. The father of the deceased and the defendant lived on the same plantation. The deceased was the owner of a cow, which had'browsed in the fields of the defendant before he had finished gathering his matured crop. The decedent had gone to find his cow, and stopped at the house of the defendant, where he received the gunshot wound from which he died. The dying declarations of the^ decedent were that the shooting was unprovoked. The witnesses for the defendant, who were of his immediate family, testified that the gun was accidentally discharged while the defendant was playing with the deceased. There were some outcroppings in their testimony which threw suspicion on the verity of their narrative.
Judgment affirmed.