Case ID: ga_154/html/0054-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Brown v. The State.
    No. 3041.
    August 17, 1922.
    Indictment for rape. Before Judge Searcy. Pike superior court. December 10, 1921.
    
      E. F. Dupree and B. G. Johnson Jr., for plaintiff in error.
    
      George M. Napier, attorney-general, E. M. Owen, solicitor-general, Seward M. Smith, asst, atty.-gen., and Ii. A. Bider, contra.
   Hill, J.

1. In the trial of a criminal case the failure of the court to charge the law of confessions, in the absence of an appropriate and timely request, is not cause for the grant of a new trial. Benjamin v. State, 150 Ga. 78 (102 S. E. 427), and cases cited.

2. The evidence authorized the verdict, and the court did not err in refusing a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices eonewr, except Gilbert, J., absent.