Case ID: ga_116/html/0534-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Little, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dean v. The State.
    Argued October 22,
    Decided November 12, 1902.
    Indictment for assault with intent to murder. Before Judge Littlejohn. Sumter superior court. July 19, 1902.
    
      J. R. Williams, for plaintiff in error.
    
      F. A. Hooper, solicitor-general, contra.
   Little, J.

1. The evidence authorized the verdict that the accused was guilty of the offense of an assault with intent to murder.

2. The trial judge fully and fairly instructed the jury as to the issues which arose under the pleadings and evidence in the case.

3. There was no error on the part of the trial judge in failing to instruct the jury as to the law governing voluntary manslaughter.

4. The jury would not have been authorized, under the evidence of any of the witnesses, to find a verdict that the accused was guilty of a less offense than that returned.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring, except Lumpkin, P. J., absent, and Candler, J., not presiding.