Elliot v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
■Indictment for murder. Before Judge Thomas. Fulton superior court. February 17, 1912.
1Opinion of the CourtHill, J.
Lucky Elliot was found guilty of the crime of murder, and, on recommendation of the jury tr}dng him, sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. His motion for new trial having been overruled by the court, he excepts, and assigns as error certain portions of the judge’s charge to the jury, and that the verdict is contrary to law, contrary to the evidence, and without evidence to support it, etc.
1. The first ground of the amendment to the motion for new trial alleged error because of the following charge of the court to the jury: “The defendant is presumed by law to be innocent, and…
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