Hanley v. State

1. Under the rulings in the eases of Solomon v. State, 100 Ga. 81 (1), and Cribb v. State, 118 Ga. 318, it was within the discretion of the trial court to refuse to allow counsel for the defense to read to the jury a certified copy of the brief of evidence contained in a record in this court in another case, counsel for the defendant stating to the court that the object of reading such evidence was to make clear the pi'inciple of circumstantial evidence decided in that case and to illustrate that principle, to the jury and apply it to the case at bar.' By such refusal the court did not, under…