Weeks v. State

1. The sole special ground of the motion for new trial, complaining of a'n excerpt from the court’s charge, is without merit, since it clearly appears from the ground itself that the excerpt was' merely a portion of the language of the indictment which the judge was reading to the jury.

2. The accused was convicted of arson — the malicious burning of ai schoolhouse known as Spring Head School Building, the property of the Board of Education of Cook County, Georgia. “Under the Code, § 32-909 (Ga. L. 1919, p. 323), county boards of education are ‘invested with the title, care, and custody of all…