Summers v. State

Carlisle, Judge.

1. Where the defendant was charged with murder of his infant male, child by striking and beating him with his hands and fists, and by striking and beating him with a man’s leather belt, and by striking him and beating him with some blunt instrument ;which was to- the grand jurors unknown, inflicting upon the child mortal wounds from which he. died, such indictment included the offense of assault and battery (Lanier v. State, 50 Ga. App. 154, 155 (177 S. E. 270), and, where the evidence authorized the jury to find that the defendant had administered to- his infant child an…