Case Name: Nix v. The State
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1944-11-16
Citations: 71 Ga. App. 741
Docket Number: 30581
Parties: Nix v. The State.
Judges: Broyles, O. J., and Gardner, J., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 71
Pages: 741–742

Head Matter:
30581.
Nix v. The State.

Opinion:
MacIntyre, J.
1. That part of the charge excepted to in special ground 1 of the motion for new trial as being erroneous is word for word in the language of an approved charge in Butler v. State, 34 Ga. App. 531 (130 S. E. 370). See also Gillespie v. State, 37 Ga. App. 507 (140 S. E. 791), and cit. This ground is not meritorious.
2. That part of the charge excepted to in special ground 2 as being erroneous is substantially the same as the charge approved in Long v. State, 127 Ga. 350, 354 (56 S. E. 444). See also Jones v. State, 70 Ga. App. 431, 443 (28 S. E. 2d, 373); Perrin v. State, 69 Ga. App. 417, 418 (25 S. E. 2d, 823). This ground is not meritorious.
3. "Where evidence is admissible for one purpose, it is not error for the court to fail to instruct the jury to limit its consideration to the one purpose for which it is admissible, in the absence of a request to so instruct the jury." Central of Georgia Ry. Co. v. Brown, 138 Ga. 107 (2) (74 S. E. 839). Under the above-stated ruling, when the allegations of the indictment charge the conviction, of a previous felony for the purpose of invoking the maximum penalty for the present felony, and evidence is introduced to prove the previous felony, it is not reversible error, in the absence of a request, to fail to charge the jury that the previous convictions were to be considered solely on the question of punishment. See also Kimbrell v. State, 57 Ga. App. 294, 296 (195 S. E. 460).
Decided November 16, 1944.
James B. Venable, Franlc A. Bowers, Jaclcson L. Barwich, John F. Echols, for plaintiff in error.
John A. Boylcin, solicitor-general, Durwood T. Bye, contra.
4. The evidence authorized the verdict finding the defendant guilty of the larceny of an automobile.
Judgment affi/i-med.
Broyles, O. J., and Gardner, J., concur.