Case ID: ga_124/html/0454-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Evans, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ridgley v. The State.
    Submitted November 21,
    Decided December 21, 1905.
    Indictment for assault with intent to murder. Before Judge. Martin. Wilcox superior court. October 7, 1905.
    
      M. B. Gannon and John R. Cooper, for plaintiff in error.
    
      F. D, Graham, solicitor-general, contra.
   Evans, J.

1. Under the uncontradieted evidence, the accused was guilty ok the offense of unlawfully shooting at another, if not of the graver offense of assault with intent to murder, and the verdict of guilty of the former offense was rightly upheld by the trial court.

2. The contention of the accused that the shooting was caused by misfortune or accident was not sustained by the evidence introduced in his behalf, nor would the jury have been warranted in finding him guilty of no higher offense than that of a bare assault and battery. Accordingly, it was not incumbent on the presiding judge to present this theory of the defense in his charge to the jury, or to instruct them as to the law relating to a mere assault and battery.

Judgment affirmed.

All thet Justices concur.