ADAMS v. STATE

20023.

214 Ga. 131 (1958)

103 S.E.2d 550

ADAMS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided May 7, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Horkan & Peters, for plaintiff in error.

J. B. Edwards, Solicitor-General, Bob Humphreys, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


ALMAND, Justice.

Otha A. Adams, on his plea of not guilty to an indictment charging him with the murder of Harris Hagan, Jr., a three-year-old child, by striking and beating him with a hammer, was on his trial found guilty by the jury and was sentenced to death by electrocution. His motion for a new trial as amended was denied, and the bill of exceptions assigns error on this order.

1. Special ground one of the amended motion for a new trial asserts that the...

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