Case ID: ga_115/html/0577-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cobb, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wells v. The State.
    Argued May 19,
    Decided June 3, 1902.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Candler. Pulton superior court. April 1$, 1902.
    
      W. W. Haden and JR. 0. Lovett, for plaintiff in error. Boykin Wright, attorney-general, and G. B. Hill, solicitor-general, contra.
   Cobb, J.

1. In the trial of a murder case, when the only question to he determined is whether the accused is guilty of murder or voluntary manslaughter, evidence that the deceased was “a small delicate man” is not irrelevant. Such evidence would elucidate the question as to whether the killing was done with malice.

2. There was ample evidence to support the verdict finding the accused, guilty of murder, and the court did not err in refusing to grant a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lewis, J., absent.