Case ID: ga-app_27/html/0642-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Luke, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

12808.
    Williams v. The State.
    Decided November 17, 1921.
    Conviction of shooting at another; from Fulton superior court — Judge Humphries. July 2, 1921.
    
      H. A. Allen, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John A. Boykin, solicitor-general, E. A. Stephens, contra.
   Luke, J.

The evidence authorized the jury to find that the defendant, not in his own defense and not under circumstances of justification, shot at a human being in the peace of the State.

There is no merit in the single assignment of error attacking the charge of the court upon the ground that it was error to charge the law of mutual combat. Under the evidence in this case it would have been error not to have so charged the jury. The charge was full and fair.

It was not error to overrule the motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., and Bloodworth, J., concur.