Case ID: ga_133/html/0181-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lumpkin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hawkins v. The State.
    Argued July 19,
    Decided August 12, 1909.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Brand. Clarke superior court. May 17, 1909.
   Lumpkin, J.

The only grounds of the motion for a new trial complaining that the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence, and without evidence to support it, and' contrary to a specified charge of the court, and the verdict being amply supported by the evidence and not contrary to the law, or to the particular part of it dealt with in the charge set out, there was no error in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.

Howell O. Erwin, Thomas S. Mell, and Henry C. Tuck, for 'plaintiff in error.

John O. Hart, attorney-general, and Clifford Walker, solicitor-general, contra.