Case ID: ga-app_8/html/0694-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

3020.
    Rivers v. The State.
    Decided January 31, 1911.
    Accusation for carrying concealed weapon; from city court of Dublin — Judge Hawkins. October 10, 1910.
    
      J. M. Burch, for plaintiff in error. W. Q. Davis, solicitor, contra.
   Powell, J.

In a criminal case, where the accused has exercised his statutory right to make a statement and the statement is contradictory of the testimony of the State’s witness, it is the duty of the trial judge, even in the absence of written request, to instruct the jury that they have the right to believe' the' statement in preference to the sworn testimony. Burns v. State, 89 Ga. 528 (15 S. E. 748); Doster v. State, 93 Ga. 43 (4), (18 S. E. 997); Fields v. State, 2 Ga. App. 41 (4), 46 (58 S. E. 327). Judgment reversed.