Ferguson v. State
| Decision Date | 01 May 1961 |
| Docket Number | No. 20446,20446 |
| Citation | 216 Ga. 794,120 S.E.2d 123 |
| Parties | Billy FERGUSON v. STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Error from Superior Court, Douglas County.
Paul James Maxwell, Atlanta, for plaintiff in error.
Dan Winn, Sol. Gen., Cedartown, John T. Perren, Asst. Sol. Gen., Dallas, Robert J. Noland, Eugence B. Brown, Douglasville, Eugene Cook, Atty. Gen., Rubye G. Jackson, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., for defendant in error.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court
All the Justices concur.
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Ferguson v. State
...109 S.E.2d 44, reversed in Ferguson v. State of Georgia, 365 U.S. 570, 81 S.Ct. 756, 5 L.Ed.2d 783, judgment conformed in Ferguson v. State, 216 Ga. 794, 120 S.E.2d 123; see also Ferguson v. State, 218 Ga. 173, 126 S.E.2d The evidence on this trial was substantially the same as that present......
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Ferguson v. State
...570, 81 S.Ct. 756, 5 L.Ed.2d 783. The judgment of reversal by the Supreme Court was duly made the judgment of this court. Ferguson v. State, 216 Ga. 794, 120 S.E.2d 123. Ferguson was again tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by electrocution. His motion for a new trial as amended was d......
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Cobb v. De Long
... ... The burden is upon him asserting error to show it affirmatively by the record, Smith v. State, 203 Ga. 636, 47 S.E.2d 866; and where, as here, the errors complained of require consideration of the evidence, this can be done only by ... ...
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Middlebrooks v. State
...v. State, 107 Ga.App. 217, 129 S.E.2d 572. See also Ferguson v. Georgia, 365 U.S. 570, 81 S.Ct. 756, 5 L.Ed.2d 783, adhered to, 216 Ga. 794, 120 S.E.2d 123. (a) The trial court erred in overruling the defendant's amended motion for new trial, based solely on the ground that the trial court ......