Booth v. State

Grice, Justice.

1. The general rule that a charge on the law of circumstantial evidence is required without request, is applicable only when the case is wholly dependent thereon. Cliett v. State, 132 Ga. 36 (63 S. E. 626).(a) The prisoner in his statement said: The deceased “picked up something and knocked me against the telephone pole and I hit him back. I walked off and left him. That is all I know about it.” The defendant had been indicted for the murder of Bassett by striking, beating, and wounding him with a piece of cement tile. Witnesses testified that the body of the deceased showed…