Legal Opinion

Dowdell v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided September 22, 1942No. 14128PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

1. It was not ground for new trial that the judge instructed the jury "that the evidence should be so conclusive as to exclude every reasonable doubt."

2. Ground 2, which complains that the judge charged the jury that "The reasonable doubt of the law is one that grows out of the evidence, which arises from want of evidence or grows out of a conflict in the evidence, and leaves a reasonable mind wavering and unsettled, not satisfied from the evidence," did not show error, in view of full instructions with respect to effect to be given to the statement of the defendant. Clements v. State, 140…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Allen v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1942
  2. Clements v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1913
  3. Welch v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1933

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. Hart v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1971
  2. Garrett v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1948
  3. Whisman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1965
  4. McBride v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1960
  5. Washington v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1960

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