Watts v. State

1. In the absence of a) proper written request to charge, a new trial will not be granted because of the failure of the trial judge to instruct the jury as to the law applicable to the impeachment of witnesses. Anderson v. State, 117 Ga. 255 (4.)

2. A proper request to charge should embody the exact instruction which the party desires to be given. Hence a ground of a motion for a new trial complaining that the court, “after having been requested in writing so to do, failed and refused to charge the jury on the question of impeachment of witnesses,” furnishes no reason for granting a new trial.…