Case ID: ga_112/html/0682-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cobb, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Mackey et al. v. The State.
    Argued January 21,
    Decided January 28, 1901.
    Iudictment for murder. Before Judge Smith. Montgomery superior court. December 19, 1900.
    
      Charles D. Loud and Wooten & Wooten, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. M. Terrell, attorney-general, and J. F. DeLacy, solicitor-general, contra.
   Cobb, J.

1. When in the trial of a murder case there was no evidence whatever that the accused on trial had entered into a conspiracy to kill the deceased, and the only possible theory upon which a verdict of conviction could stand was that the accused, with others, had entered into such a conspiracy, a verdict finding the accused guilty was unauthorized and should have been set aside.

2. The present case is controlled by the proposition stated in the preceding note, and the court erred in refusing to grant a new trial.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring.