McCloud v. State

(After stating the foregoing facts.)

The special grounds of the motion for new trial, from one to seventeen inclusive, complain of the refusal of the judge to give to the jury certain instructions as requested by counsel for the defendant. So far as these instructions were correct and applicable, they were fully covered by the general charge; and for this reason the refusal of the requests does not require the grant of a new trial.

A trial judge errs if he treats an inculpatory admission as a confession, and gives in charge to the jury the law relating to confessions. Dumas v. State, 63 Ga. 600…