Ryan v. State

William Ryan was indicted for committing the offense of assault with intent to murder on December 7, 1931, in Chatham county, by shooting at E. A. Fitzgerald with a pistol. A jury found the defendant guilty of the crime charged and fixed the penalty at from six to eight years. The exception is to the judgment overruling Ryan’s motion for a new trial, based upon the usual general grounds and seventeen special grounds.

Special ground 7 avers that the following charge of the court was argumentative and prejudicial to the defendant, and “set forth too strongly the contentions of the State, without…