Parker v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for assault with intent to murder — conviction of shooting at another; from Murray superior court — Judge Tarver. March 23, 1922. The 5th division of the decision relates to the following ground: “ 8. Because the court erréd in failing to charge the jury, as movant insists, as follows: That the burden of proof was upon the State to satisfy their minds beyond a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant as charged.
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Indictment for assault with intent to murder — conviction of shooting at another; from Murray superior court — Judge Tarver. March 23, 1922. The 5th division of the decision relates to the following ground: “ 8. Because the court erréd in failing to charge the jury, as movant insists, as follows: That the burden of proof was upon the State to satisfy their minds beyond a reasonable doubt of the guilt of the defendant as charged. And movants say that the failure to so charge was error of law.— Note by the court: The charge sets out what was said by the court upon the subject of reasonable…
1Opinion of the CourtBloodworth, J.
1. “A special ground of the motion for a new trial complains of certain questions asked a witness for the State by the court, and of the answers elicited, on the ground that the questions and answers had a tendency to prejudice the movant’s cause with the jury, and indicated judicial disapproval of certain conduct of the defendant, disclosed by such examination. This ground of the motion, however, fails to show that the questions and answers were objected to at the time, or that there was a motion to exclude this evidence, or a motion for a mistrial of the case. Accordingly, under repeated…
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