Case ID: ga_115/html/0578-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harris v. The State.
    Submitted May 19,
    Decided June 3, 1902.
    Accusation of assault and battery. Before Judge Robinson. City court of Wrightsville. March 25, 1902.
    
      J. L. Kent and Martin & Martin, for plaintiff in error.
    
      B. B. Blount, solicitor, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

A mother who has the right to control and correct her child may authorize another, in her presence, to chastise the child for disobedience ; and if he do so in a proper manner, he is not guilty of an assault and battery upon the child.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lewis, J., absent.