Case Name: Allen v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1913-08-12
Citations: 140 Ga. 479
Docket Number: 
Parties: Allen v. The State.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 140
Pages: 479–479

Head Matter:
Allen v. The State.
August 12, 1913.
Indictment for rape. Before Judge Daniel. Fayette superior court. May 23, 1913.
W. B. Hollingsworth and J. W. Culpepper, for plaintiff in error.
T. 8. Felder, attorney-general, and E. M. Owen, solicitor-general, contra.

Opinion:
Beck, J.
1. It does not appear that there was any abuse of discretion in overruling a motion for a continuance in the present case, there being no showing on the part of the movant that the absent witness resided in the county in which the case was pending, or even in this State. Motions for continuances' are peculiarly within the discretion of the trial court, and that discretion will not be controlled by . this court unless it has been manifestly abused. Hardy v. State, 117 Ga. 40 (43 S. E. 434).
2. The court did not err in charging the jury that "in prosecutions for rape the fact that the woman made complaint soon after the assault took place is evidence, but the particulars of the complaint can not be gone into." This was a statement of a general legal principle, and did not amount to an expression of an opinion on the facts of the instant case. Nor was it unauthorized by the evidence in the ease.
3. There was sufficient evidence to authorize the verdict of the jury; and that verdict, having received the sanction of the trial judge, will not be disturbed here.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.