Bennett v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Practice. . Trials. Argument of counsel. Before Judge Lumpkin. Hart superior court. September adjourned term, 1889. Reported in tbe decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Simmons, Justice.
Bennett was tried for tbe offence of burglary, and was convicted. He made a motion for a new trial, which was refused, and be excepted. One of tbe grounds of *402tbe motion is that the prosecuting attorney, in the closing argument, argued that the defendant had a bad character; that he had a right to prove his good character and had not done so. The defendant objected to this and requested the court not to allow it. The court stated that the argument was proper and he would allow it to proceed. Following is a note which the court attaches to this ground:
“ The first ground of the…
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