Case ID: ga_121/html/0337-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Cobb, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Sims v. The State.
    Argued November 21, —
    Decided December 9, 1904.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Littlejohn. Dooly superior court. September 24, 1904. •
    
      W. H. Dorris and Watts Powell, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John 0. Hart, attorney-general, and F. A. Hooker, solicitor-general, contra.
   Cobb, J.

The motion for a new trial was upon the general grounds only. The evidence for the State made a clear case of murder. The accused introduced no evidence. His statement tended to show that the killing was in self-defense. The jury have resolved the conflict in favor of the State. The trial judge has approved the verdict and refused a new trial, and no reason appears why his discretion in so doing should be interfered with.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.