Case ID: ga_137/html/0021-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Evans, P. J.-", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Morgan v. The State.
    October 11, 1911.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Martin. Laurens superior court. April 12, 1911.
    
      Adams & Flynt and John B. Cooper, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Ii. A. Hall, attorney-general, and F. D. Graham, solicitor-general, contra.
   Evans, P. J.-

1. The court did not abuse his discretion in refusing to continue the ease.

2. The evidence authorized a charge on self-defense in ease of mutual combat, predicated on the Penal Code (1910), § 73.

3. The court did not confuse the defense of one’s person, as defined in the ' Penal Code (1910), §§ 70, .71, with the law of self-defense in case of mutual combat, as contained in the Penal Code (1910), § 73.

4. The evidence is sufficient to support the verdict.

Judgment affirmed.

Bech, J., absent. The other Justices concur.