Legal Opinion
Toler v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Decided February 11, 1957No. 19557PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wyatt, Presiding Justice.
James (Dock) Toler and Don Mitchell Colman were indicted for murder. They were tried separately and, in this case in this court, Toler, who was convicted of murder without recommendation, has assigned as error the denial of his motion for new trial. Held:
1. In so far as the general grounds of the motion for new trial are concerned, it is sufficient to' say that the evidence was amply sufficient to support the verdict.
2. The first special ground of the motion for new trial complains because Sergeant R. E. Little, Jr., a detective with the Atlanta Police Department, was…
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