Case ID: ga-app_13/html/0170-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

5026.
    Weatherby v. The State.
    Decided August 11, 1913.
    Conviction of shooting at another; from Eloyd superior court— Judge Price Edwards. May 30, 1913.
    
      Eubanks & Mebane, for plaintiff in error.
    
      W. H. Ennis} solicitor-general, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

1. The verdict does not depend solely upon circumstantial evidence, a confession having been shown; and, in the absence of a timely written request, the trial judge did not err in failing to give in charge the law of circumstantial evidence, as contained in the Penal Code (1910), § 1010. Benton v. State, 9 Ga. App. 422 (71 S. E. 498); Holt v. State, 7 Ga. App. 77 (66 S. E. 279). '

2. No error of law being assigned except as indicated above, and the verdict being supported by the evidence, the judgment refusing a new trial is Affirmed.