Thaxton v. State

With certain well-recognized exceptions, none of which are pertinent here, errors which occur in the course of a trial are not harmful and reversible where the verdict as rendered by the jury was demanded by the evidence. Williams v. State, 15 Ga. App. 311 (82 S. E. 817); Leonard v. State, 110 Ga. 291 (34 S. E. 1015). Shooting at another is defined by our Code as follows: “Any person who shall be guilty of the offense of shooting at another, except in his own defense or under circumstances of justification, with a gun, pistol, or other instrument of the like kind, shall be punished by…