Griffin v. State

Grice, Presiding Justice.

The appellant, Eugene Powell Griffin, was indicted by the Grand Jury of Fulton County with James Allen Phillips for murder in that he shot and killed Harold Nelson Toole. Griffin was tried separately, was convicted and was sentenced to life imprisonment. He has appealed from his conviction and sentence and from the denial of his motion for a new trial as amended. This motion asserted, insofar as necessary to state here, the general grounds.

Enumerated as error in this appeal are essentially: (1) the overruling of the motion for new trial as amended; (2) failing to…