McConley v. State

Hall, Judge.

The defendant assigns error on the overruling of special grounds of his motion for new trial after his conviction for the crime of shooting at another. These grounds contend that the court’s charge harmed him in that (a) the instruction concerning conflicts in testimony was confusing and did not make it clear that when the defendant elected to be sworn as a witness on his own behalf, as provided by Code § 38-415, as amended (Ga. L. 1962, p. 133), the jury could believe his testimony in preference to that of other witnesses; *647(b) an excerpt from the charge was rendered meaningless…