Gatliff v. State

The defendant was tried, convicted, and sentenced to serve a term of from eight to ten years in the penitentiary, under an indictment charging him with assault with intent to murder Ovid Benefield, Jr. His motion for a new trial, based on the usual general grounds and five special grounds (numbered four through eight), was denied, and he , has brought the present writ of error to have that judgment reviewed.

1. Counsel for the defendant did not generally insist upon or argue the general grounds of the motion for a new trial, either orally or in his brief filed in this court, and those grounds…