Anderson v. State

Jenkins, Justice.

The verdict of murder was authorized by the testimony of the State’s witnesses that the deceased and his companions had no difficulty with the defendant before the shooting, that the deceased and his companions were unarmed; and that the defendant, in shooting four times, killing the deceased and wounding a companion, shot without justification or provocation.

Under the rule stated in Coleman v. George, 140 Ga. 619 (2), 621 (79 S. E. 543), the provision in the act of August 21, 1911 (Ga. L. 1911, p. 74; Code, § 27-1201), relative, to a change of venue in criminal cases when…