Case ID: ga-app_24/html/0346-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bloodworth, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

10810.
    Grant v. The State.
    Decided November 4, 1919.
    Conviction of manslaughter; from Evans superior court—Judge Evans. June 7, 1919.
    
      P. M. Anderson, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. Saxton Daniel, solicitor-general, contra.
   Bloodworth, J.

1. “The overruling of a demurrer to an indictment can not properly be made a ground of a motion for a new trial.” Veal v. State, 116 Ga. 589 (42 S. E. 705) ; Brown v. Wilkes, 20 Ga. App. 92 (92 S. E. 553), and cases cited.

2. Under*tlie qualifying note of the trial judge there is no merit in the fifth ground of the motion for a new trial.

3. The court did not err in charging the jury on voluntary manslaughter.

4. The evidence suqiports the verdict.

Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, O. J., and Luke, J., coneur.