Webb v. State

1. If the trial judge undertakes to instruct the jury as to the methods by which a witness may he impeached, he should instruct them as to all the methods of impeachment, so far as the instructions are authorized by the evidence. But it has been held by this court that his failure to do so will not require the grant of a new trial, where no written request was made to charge the jury as to the mode of impeachment omitted from his instructions upon the subject of impeachment of witnesses. Mitten &c. R. Co. v. Allen, 130 Ga. 656 (5), 657 (61 S. E. 541).

2. Where, on the trial of one indicted for…