Case ID: ga_121/html/0333-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pish, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dickerson v. The State.
    Submitted October 19, —
    Decided December 9, 1904.
    Conviction of involuntary manslaughter. Before Judge Cann. Chatham superior court. June 23, 1904.
    
      Twiggs & Oliver, James F. Evans, and Edmund U. Abrahams,
    for plaintiff in error. W. W. Osborne, solicitor-general, contra.
   Pish, P. J.

On the trial of one indicted for murder, the legal effect of a verdict of “guilty of involuntary manslaughter” was to find the accused guilty of the highest grade of the last-named offense, viz,, involuntary manslaughter in the commission of an unlawful act. Thomas v. State, this day decided. Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.