Parker v. State

Where, upon a trial for assault with intent to murder, the defendant in his statement to the jury admits firing at the prosecutor but claims the shot was fired in self-defense and under circumstances of justification with no intention to kill, but there is evidence authorizing the jury to disbelieve the defendant’s claim of self-defense and circumstances of justification, this court will not, upon a motion for a new trial based solely upon the general grounds, disturb a verdict finding the defendant guilty of shooting at another; not in his own defense. Close v. State, 70 Ga. App. 498 (28 S.…