Driver v. State

Hall, Judge.

The defendants were tried on two joint indictments for assault and battery on two persons. They appeal from the sentences of two years for each defendant.

1. The trial court did not err in overruling the defendants’ motion for mistrial on the grounds that in questioning witnesses, and in referring to the defendants as hoodlums in his argument to the jury, the solicitor had placed their character in issue. Byrd v. State, 78 Ga. App. 824, 833 (52 SE2d 330).

2. The court charged the jury: “The defendants have made to you a statement, which they had a right to do, the law being that in…