Morgan v. State

J. H. Morgan was tried on an indictment charging him with the offense of rape in DeKalb County, Georgia. He was ■ convicted of an assault with intent to rape; his motion for a new trial was overruled, and that judgment is assigned as error. The evidence, while authorizing the jury to find that the defendant was guilty as charged, did not demand such a finding, but also authorized the verdict returned.

Ground 4 of the motion for new trial complains of the admission in evidence, over the defendant’s objection, of “a little memorandum book of the defendant containing names and addresses and found…