Case Name: Lyle vs. The State of Georgia
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1882-10-03
Citations: 69 Ga. 762
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lyle vs. The State of Georgia.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 69
Pages: 762–762

Head Matter:
Lyle vs. The State of Georgia.
1. An indictment for murder was found in October, 1881. Oh the trial during the next year, the judge charged as follows: “ Thé defendant, Jeff Lyle, is charged with the murder of Bose Barlow, in the county of Stewart, in September of last year. It is incumbent on the state to satisfy you, beyond a reasonable doubt, of every allegation in that bill, before they could ask at your hands a verdict of guilty. The exact date of a homicide is immaterial; if you should find from the evidence that Bose Barlow was killed in the county of Stewart last year at any time, that would be sufficient upon the subject of dates" :
Held, that a reasonable construction of the charge would be, that it was sufficient as to dates if the homicide occurred during the year, at any time previous to the indictment; and so construed, it was not error.
(a.) The proof showed the homicide to have been prior to the indictment, and if there was error in the charge, it was immaterial.
2. The verdict was right, the charge of the court as a whole was cOrrect, and if there were an isolated inaccuracy in the charge, it would not work a reversal. 56 Ga., 44.
October 3, 1882.

Opinion:
SffeER, Justice,