Hill v. State

A rule of the superior court, as embodied in section 6361 of the Code of 1910, is as follows : “Arguments of counsel shall be confined to the law and the facts involved in the case then before the court, on pain of being-considered in contempt; and in all civil cases questions of law shall be argued exclusively to the court, and questions of fact to the jury.” (Italics mine.) Rome Railroad Co. v. Barnett, 94 Ga. 446 (2), (20 S. E. 355). The convention of the superior court judges in July, 1924, amended this rule, which is embodied in section 24-3319 of the Georgia Code (Ann. Supp.), so as to…