Case ID: ga-app_18/html/0704-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hodqes, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

7828.
    Hiers v. The State.
    Decided October 18, 1916.
    Indictment for murder; from Colquitt superior court — Judge Thomas. June 26, 1916.
    
      James Humphreys, T. H. Parker, Claude Payton, for plaintiff in error. J. A. Willces, solicitor-general, contra.
   Hodqes, J.

1. The verdict of voluntary manslaughter is justified by the evidence and is not contrary to law.

2. The written statement offered by the State, in the nature of a confession from the accused, taken by the solicitor-general and the sheriff, was admissible in evidence. Woolfolk v. State, 81 Ga. 551 (8 S. E. 724).

Judgment affirmed.