Trammell v. State

Duckworth, Chief Justice.

Tommie Lee Trammell was indicted, tried, and convicted in Fulton Superior Court of murder without a recommendation of mercy by the jury. A motion for new trial and an amendment thereto were thereafter filed and denied, and the exception is to that judgment. Held:

1. The court, after sustaining an objection by the defense counsel to certain testimony, did not err in instructing the jury that whenever he sustained objections to testimony the jury was not to consider the testimony ruled out and not to consider the question or the answer. The ground of the amended motion…