[PW] Georgia Laws in 1913?

[Douglas Anderson]

Allen --

Are you sure that murder WAS a capital crime for women in that time
and place?  In many areas, women were not subject to the same
penalties as men for some crimes, including murder; in some that was
codified in law (though I have no idea whether Georgia was one such),
in others it was simply the way things were done, that women could not
hang/be shot/etc., even for murder.

-- Doug A.

On 5/24/07, AllenAmet at aol.com <AllenAmet at aol.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    I have run into some published contradictions on how court trials were
> conducted in (Atlanta) Georgia around 1913. Some state that a person accused of a
> capital crime (like murder) was NOT allowed to testify under oath, EVEN IF he
> wished to do so. The accused was however allowed to make an independent
> 'Statement' in Court, but that was unsworn and un-cross-examined by either side.
>
>    But there seems to have been a murder trial in Georgia ( April 1913), in
> which a woman named Callie Applebaum was accused of killing her husband, and I
> believe she WAS allowed to testify under oath. I can't find her case on the
> Internet, but I know that she was acquitted (successfully claiming her husband
> shot himself).
>
>   Is there perhaps a book from that period that would contain the relevant GA
> Statutes that then applied?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Allen
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