Dickerson v. State

Atkinson, Presiding Justice.

Tom Dickerson was indicted for murder of an infant by strangulation with a rope and other means to the grand jurors unknown, alleged to have been committed in Ben Hill County, Georgia. A verdict was returned, finding him guilty, without recommendation. The exception is to a judgment overruling the defendant’s motion for a new trial, based on the general grounds, and a special ground that the evidence was insufficient to prove the venue, and a ground complaining of the judge’s charge to the jury.

The judge gave the following instruction: “Now, gentlemen, as stated…