Case ID: ga_92/html/0474-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Curney v. The State.
    I. Although in a trial for murder circumstances of justification may appear from evidence introduced by the State as well as from evidence introduced by the accused, there was no error in refusing to charge this principle when the evidence for the State made a plain case of murder, and contained nothing showing any justification whatever; especially is this so when the court had not charged there was any presumption against the accused arising from the fact of the killing, or that there was any burden upon him to show justification.
    3. The evidence demanded a conviction for murder, and the court was right in refusing a new trial.
    June 19, 1893.
    By two Justices.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Smith. Ware superior court. April term, 1893.
    L. A. Wilson, J. L. Crawley and C. C. Thomas, for plaintiff in error. J. M. Terrell, attorney-general, and W. G. Brantley, solicitor-general, contra.
    
   Judgment affirmed.