Tanksley v. State

1. This case is not dependent wholly- on circumstantial evidence, and, in the absence of a timely and proper written request therefor, the court did not err in failing to instruct the jury upon the law of circumstantial evidence. McRae v. State, 27 Ga. App. 614 (2) (109 S. E. 688).

2. Where during the trial of a case an oral request is made that the judge give in charge to the jury the law of circumstantial evidence, and in reply to the request the judge uses language which counsel for the defendant considers prejudicial to the cause of his client and which he insists “amounts to an expression…