Case Name: Cook vs. State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1886-04-27
Citations: 1 Ga. L. Rep. 420
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cook vs. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Law Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 420–420

Head Matter:
THE SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA,
Decisions Rendered April 27, 1886.
REPORTED BY J. H. LUMPKIN, REPORTER
Cook vs. State.
Mcr'djsr, from Taylor. Criminal Law. Murder. Malice. Charge of Court. (Before Judge Willis.)
W. S. Wallace & Son, for plaintiff in error.
Clifford Anderson, attorney general, by J. H. Lumpkin; Thos. W. Grimes, solicitor general, by J. M. McNeill, for the State.

Opinion:
Hall, J,
There was no error in charging that, in order to make the homicide for which the defendant was tried murder, it must have been committed with malice aforethought; "that is, it must exist prior to the killing ; it is not necessary that it should exist for any considerable length of time; if it exist a moment before the killing, it is malice aforethought in law." 70 Ga., 617, 620.
(a) The charge of the presiding judge in this case fully and fairly submitted all the law applicable to the case, and it is not denied that the evidence sustained, if it did not require, the verdict.
Judgment affirmed.