Case ID: ga_114/html/0104-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lumpkin, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hanson v. The State.
    Argued October 22,
    Decided November 7, 1901.
    Indictment for misdemeanor. Before Judge Hodnett. City court of Carrollton. August 8, 1901.
    
      W. D. Hamrick and Oscar Reese, for plaintiff in epror.
    
      S. Holderness, solicitor, contra.
   Lumpkin, P. J.

1. It is not, in a trial for the offense of using opprobrious words, erroneous to charge the jury that if the accused used to the prosecutor the language charged in the indictment, it is for them to determine' whether or not he had provocation so to do, and “whether or not-the provocation, if there was any, was sufficient to justify the defendant in the use of such language. ” Echols v. State, 110 Ga. 257.

2. The verdict in this case was fully supported by evidence.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.