Hatley v. State

Felton, Chief Judge.

1. The appeal from the judgment overruling the general grounds of the motion for a new trial must be treated as abandoned by the failure to argue them. Underwood v. Ranger Mfg. Co., 116 Ga. App. 803 (159 SE2d 144), and cit.

2. Enumerated error 7 complains of the following excerpt from the court’s charge to the jury: “Gentlemen, under the law, the defendant could not be compelled to be cross examined. I charge you, however, that in all criminal trials the defendant is allowed to make to the court and jury such statement in his own behalf as he sees fit to make. His statement…