Woods v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Bawlings. Bulloch superior court. June 22, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtLumpkin, J.
1. Where, in the trial of one accused of murder, the presiding judge charged fully the law of reasonable doubts, as applicable to the ease, it furnished no ground for reversal that the court refused to charge further, on request, that if the jury had a reasonable doubt as to whether the killing was voluntary or accidental they should accept the theory of accident and acquit the defendant.
1 Under the evidence, there was no error in not charging on the subject of involuntary manslaughter.
3. Where complaint is made in a motion for a new trial that a named witness for the defendant was not…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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