Wilson v. State
Wilson v. State
Opinion of the Court
[Indictment for assault with intent to murder. The evidence showed the following facts: As Allen, the prosecutor, was going home, he encountered some boys, who threw snowballs at him' as he approached. He went among them, and saw the defendant (who had probably been pelted by snowballs before his arrival) approaching.
Two witnesses were introduced by the defendant, but their testimony amounted to nothing; neither saw the difficulty. In her statement, the defendant claimed that Allen hit her with snowballs, cursed her and cut her hand Avith a knife, at the same time hitting her sister with a rock. In explanation of hoAv Allen was cut, she stated that the man who came to stop the difficulty “ tried to cut around the boy’s shoulder and cut his overcoat.” She denied ever having used a razor. In rebuttal of her statement the State was allowed, over objection, to introduce testimony of one Eubanks, tending to contradict it and to support the evidence for the State already in.
After verdict of guilty, the defendant moved for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to law and evidence; because of the admission of the testimony of Eubanks after the evidence for both sides had closed; and because of the newly-discovered evidence of two witnesses, to the effe ctthat Allen first accosted defendant and assaulted her with the rock before she said or did anything to him; that other boys in the crowd then threw rocks at her and her sister, the largest one cutting her hand with a large pocket-knife over the shoulder ” of Allen; and that this was the only cutting that was done, defendant having no razor or knife, and only trying to defend herself from the assaults of the boys. The new trial was refused, and she excepted.]
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- Wilson v. The State of Georgia
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