Dawson v. State

Townsend, Judge.

Richard Dawson was indicted and tried in the Superior Court of Eulton County on a charge of assault with intent to murder, and was found guilty of shooting at another. The motion for a new trial, the denial of which is assigned as error, presents the single issue of whether it was error to allow the State to prove that immediately after the defendant shot at the prosecutor, his companion assaulted two witnesses to the shooting, over the objection that such evi*416dence was irrelevant and constituted a separate criminal transaction.

Decided October 15, 1959. Frank W. Brandon, for…