Elder v. State

1. The words “reasonable doubt” are of such obvious significance that, in the absence of an appropriate written request, an omission to define them will not require a new trial. Battle v. State, 103 Ga. 53 (2), 57 (29 S. E. 491).

2. On the trial of a murder case it is not advisable for the judge, while instructing the jury on the subject of implied malice, to use the expression, “it may appear in the gleam of a knife, or from the flash from the shot of a gun.” Mills v. State, 133 Ga. 155 (65 S. E. 368) ; Leonard v. State, 133 Ga. 435 (66 S. E. 251); Ricketson v. State, 134 Ga. 306 (67 S. E.…