Favors v. State

Grice, Justice.

This review involves denial of motion for new trial, giving of two charges, and failure to give certain charges in a murder trial. The appellant Joe Will Favors was indicted for the homicide of his wife Ruby Pool Favors by the grand jury of Fulton County and was tried in the superior court of that county. Upon rendition of a verdict of guilty he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The general grounds of his motion for new trial are not meritorious. There was evidence which showed that he and the victim engaged in an argument and that without justification he shot her with a…