Cawthon v. State

Henry Cawthon was indicted on seventeen ■counts charging seventeen different misdemeanors. The judge directed a verdict in favor of the defendant on eight of the counts. The jury acquitted the defendant on eight counts and found him guilty under count 12 charging assault and battery upon P. S. Toney. The defendant’s motion for new trial was overruled and he excepted.

1. The evidence disclosed that the flogging was committed in the same manner that floggings were committed in Walton v. State, 65 Ga. App. 124 (15 S. E. 455); Bryant v. State, 65 Ga. App. post (15 S. E. 2d, ...); Eidson v. State,…