Case ID: ga_124/html/0688-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Beck, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Greer v. The State.
    Submitted December 18, 1005.
    Decided January 13, 1906.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Reagan. Spalding superior court. October 28, 1905.
    
      J. D. Boyd and W. E. II. Searcy Jr., for plaintiff in error.
    
      John 0. Ilart, attorney-general, and O. U. B. Bloodworth, solic--itor-general, contra.
    
   Beck, J.

1. As the evidence introduced by the State made out a plain ease-of murder, and the statement of the defendant established a case of justifiable ^homicide, the court below did not err in omitting from its. chai'ge the law of voluntary manslaughter.

2. The verdict was authorized by the evidence; and the trial judge being-satisfied therewith, this court will not interfere with his refusal to grant, a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.