Wilson v. State

A request to charge must be based on a principle of law applicable to the case, pertinent and legal in form. Rowland v. State, 90 Ga. App. 742 (2) (84 S. E. 2d 209). The failure of the court to give the requested charge: “There must be shown by the State's evidence that the description in the indictment of the article alleged to be stolen is the proof produced from the witness stand to be the same, and the proof must show that the number is the same as charged in the indictment,” contended to be error in the first special ground of the motion for a new trial, is not completely intelligible,…