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—--Meriwether Superior Court-The case of The State against j James A. Cartwright, who was tried last week for murder, was concluded Saturday afternoon, and after an able and exhaustive charge to the jury by His Honor, Judge Harris, the jury retired to their room. They were out about thirty minutes, when they brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommendation to mercy. Those who heard it say that the speech of Col. H. M. Reid in this case was a grand effort, and many expressions of high praise were made of his speech. On Tuesday evening of this week the defendant was brought into Court and Judge Harris, in a formal way, passed the sentence of law upon him, which is imprisonment at hard labor in the penitentiary for life. The defendant received the sentence with indifference; but after adjournment of Court called the Judge to him and said, in substance, that he had much to say to the people, and felt as if he could talk a half a day, and wanted to say that he felt that he could not have done otherwise “than kill poor Johnson, for he saw in Johnson’s eyes that he would have killed him.” Cartwright spoke with earnestness while thus addressing the Judge. A motion for new trial has been made; hence the Court, as above stated, simply passed the sentence of the law upon the defendant, without further remarks.
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Newnan Herald and Advertiser
Newnan, Georgia, US
Fri, Mar 02, 1888
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