Crowe v. State

Whitman, Judge.

This case, an appeal from conviction for possessing and transporting nontax-paid whiskey, is controlled by Crowe v. State, 117 Ga. App. 598, which involved the same defendant and presented two identical questions for decision. Held:

1. Enumeration of error 2 in this case presents the question whether a certain instruction to the jury amounted to a direct comment on the defendant’s decision to make an unsworn statement to the court and jury rather than submit to the compulsion of an oath. Such comment is prohibited by the unsworn statement statute as amended in 1962. (Ga. L.…