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JACKSON v. STATE

18880.

211 Ga. 490 (1955)

86 S.E.2d 306

JACKSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided March 16, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Gordon, Henry N. Payton, for plaintiff in error.

Wright Lipford, Solicitor-General, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, contra.

HAWKINS, Justice.

Howard Jackson was indicted in Coweta Superior Court for the murder of his wife by shooting her with a shotgun. The jury returned a verdict of guilty without a recommendation of mercy. To the judgment denying his motion for a new trial, based upon the general grounds and one special ground, the defendant excepted, but, in his brief filed in this court, has abandoned the general grounds. The special ground of the motion for a new trial is based upon...

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