Case ID: ga-app_11/html/0756-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Pottle, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

4331.
    Leatherman v. The State.
    Decided October 22, 1912.
    Accusation of misdemeanor; from city court" of Floyd county— Judge Eeece. July 1, 1912.
    
      Eubanks & Mebane, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John W. Bale, solicitor-general, contra.
   Pottle, J.

1. In the trial of an accusation for unlawful sexual intercourse, it is not error to admit testimony that a witness, without the consent of the accused, placed a searchlight through a broken pane in a window of the house where she was staying, and by this means discovered her in bed with a man, both persons being undressed. Such evidence was not inadmissible as having been obtained in violation of the constitutional right of the accused to be protected from an illegal search. Williams v. State, 100 Ga. 511 (26 S. E. 624, 39 L. R. A. 269).

The evidence fully warranted the verdict of guilty.

Judgment affirmed.