Case ID: ga_153/html/0328-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Per Curiam.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Adams v. The State. Chapman v. The State.
    Nos. 3002, 3003.
    April 17, 1922.
    Same description and counsel’s names as in last two cases.
   Per Curiam.

Lee Adams, Causey Chapman, Buddy Wall, Chess Lewis, Lawyer West, and fifteen others were indicted for the murder of Robert Davis. Lee Adams and Causey Chapman being tried separately, each was found guilty, with recommendation that he be imprisoned in the penitentiary for life. Separate motions for new trial were overruled, and the defendants excepted. Held, that the controlling questions in these cases are governed by the principles ruled in the cases of Wall v. State and Lewis v. State, ante, 309.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur, except Gilbert, ./., dissenting.