Connell v. State
| Decision Date | 18 March 1922 |
| Docket Number | (No. 2944.) |
| Citation | 111 S.E. 545,153 Ga. 151 |
| Parties | CONNELL. v. STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
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Error from Superior Court, Wilkinson County; J. B. Park, Judge.
P. T. Connell was convicted of an offense, and be brings error. Affirmed.
John R. Cooper and W. O. Cooper, Jr., both of Macon, for plaintiff in error.
Doyle Campbell, Sol. Gen., and A. Y. Clement, both of Monticello, and Geo. M. Napier, Atty. Gen., and Seward M. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
GILBERT, J. Judgment affirmed. All the Justices concur, except FISH, C. J., absent because of sickness.
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State v. Bryant
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Wright v. State
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Wright v. State, 11670.
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