Case ID: ga_69/html/0766-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Jackson, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wall vs. The State of Georgia.
    1. The verdict in this case was fully supported by the evidence, and the sentence imposed was mild.
    2. The defendant in this case having been indicted for assault with intent to murder, the facts werei not such as to require a charge in regard to the doctrine of reasonable fears, as contained in $4331 of the Code; and the jury having found a verdict of guilty of an assault and battery, the defendant was not hurt by a failure to give such a charge. That principle does not seem to apply to assault and battery.
    3. That a jury, upon finding a defendant guilty of assault and battery, added to their verdict a recommendation to mercy, did not vitiate the verdict. Such recommendation was a favor to' defendant, which gave him no right to complain.
    
      (a.) While the judge was not bound to regard the recommendation, the sentence was light, and the defendant, if not benefited, was certainly not damaged.
    January 30, 1883.
   Jackson, Chief Justice.