Beckworth v. Phillips

1. Verdicts and judgments are usually conclusive only upon parties and privies. The prosecutor is not such a party and has not such privity in a criminal prosecution as to make the verdict rendered in the criminal case binding on him in a civil case brought for the redressing of the same alleged wrong. Powell v. Wiley, 125 Ga. 823 (54 S. E. 732), and cit.

2. Where a defendant in a civil action for assault and battery attempts to justify or to mitigate on account of opprobrious language used to him by the plaintiff, the questions whether the language used was opprobrious, and whether it was…