Nolen v. State

Evans, Judge.

The defendant was indicted and tried for the offense of murder. The jury returned a verdict of guilty of manslaughter, with a sentence of five years. The appeal is from the judgment of conviction and sentence. Held:

The sole basis of this review is that the court erred in overruling the defendant’s motions for directed verdict of acquittal when the State rested its case, and again at the close of all the evidence. Counsel for the appellant bases his argument upon the decisions of Gilbert v. State, 94 Ga. App. 217 (94 SE2d 109) and Jones v. State, 212 Ga. 195 (91 SE2d 514) (the…