Case ID: ga-app_36/html/0771-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Broyles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

18027.
    Johnson v. The State.
    Decided May 11, 1927.
    Manslaughter; from DeKalb superior court — Judge Hutcheson. January 29, 1927.
    
      Branch & Howard, B. H. Burgess, for plaintiff in error.
    
      Claude C. Smith, solicitor-general, contra.
    Criminal Law, 16 C. J. p. 931, n. 95; p. 1180, n. 74; p. 1217, n. 45.
    Homicide, 30 C. J. p. 316, n. 68.
   Broyles, C. J.

The motion for a new trial contained the usual general grounds only. The evidence for the State, combined with portions of the defendant’s statement to the jury (and it is well settled that the jury can believe portions of a defendant’s statement and disbelieve the rest of it), authorized the verdict, and the refusal to grant a new trial was not error.

Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Bloodwortk, JJ., concur.