Mitchell v. State

1. Frank Mitchell was convicted of assault with intent to murder Hoyt McDaniel. The court did not err in allowing in evidence a bloody shirt which McDaniel was wearing at the time he was cut. Goodwin v. State, 148 Ga. 33 (3) (95 S. E. 674).

2. The court did not err in refusing to declare a mistrial on the ground that the solicitor-general exhibited to the jury the shirt referred to above, nor in refusing to declare a mistrial because the assistant solicitor-general, in his concluding argument, said: “The defendant claims that he was beaten over the head and that he was bloody; but in my…