Johns v. State

Moncie Johns was tried in the Superior Court of Brantley County for burglary. Upon his conviction he filed a motion for new trial on the general grounds, which was amended by adding 4 special grounds. The exception here is to the judgment overruling his amended motion for a new trial.

Special ground 1 contends that the trial court erred in overruling the objection made by the defendant’s counsel to a statement, in the argument for the State by the solicitor-general to the jury, as follows: “If defendant’s counsel wanted to prove the good character of the defendant he could have put up…