Case ID: ga-app_105/html/0774-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Frankum, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

39338.
    THOMAS v. THE STATE.
   Frankum, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of an assault with intent to commit murder under an indictment charging that he did “. . . with a certain automobile, the same being a weapon, likely to produce death, . . . unlawfully and with malice aforethought, make an assault upon one Wray King, and . . . did, unlawfully and with malice aforethought, drive at and towards said Wray King, with the intent, then and there, unlawfully, and with malice aforethought, to kill and murder said Wray King. . .” The conviction of the defendant was not authorized by the evidence. Therefore, the court erred in denying his motion for a new trial.

Decided April 18, 1962.

Casey Thigpen, for plaintiff in error.

Walter C. McMillan, Jr., Solicitor-General, contra.

Judgment reversed.

Nichols, P. J., and Jordan, J., concur.