Case ID: ga_100/html/0081-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      Simmons, C. J.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SOLOMON v. THE STATE.
    Submitted October 8,
    Decided October 26, 1896.
    Indictment for -assault to- murder. Before Judge Gober. Houston superior court. April term, 1896.
    
      W. G. Davis and R. A. Holtzclaw, for plaintiff in error.
    
      A W. Lane, solicitor-general, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

1. While it is the right of counsel for the accused' in a criminal case to read law to the jury and comment thereon,, this court will not control the discretion of the trial judge in refusing to allow counsel to read from a Supreme Court report, of this State the facts of a decided case for the purpose of commenting upon and comparing the testimony in that ease-with the facts of the case on trial.

2. This case turned upon the question whether the accused unlawfully or in -self-defense stabbed the person alleged to have been assailed, and the evidence fully warranted the verdict of guilty. Even if the charges complained of were- not in all re-speots accurate, they contain nothing which would justify this court in setting aside the judgment of the court below refusing a new-trial. Judgment affirmed.