Court Opinion

ID: 5606384
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 03:44:46.199362+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:36:57.453419
License: Public Domain

Pottle, J.
1. An instruction to the jury in a criminal case, that, where the defense of alibi is relied on, the burden is on the accused to establish this defense “to your satisfaction,” is not erroneous, when, in immediate connection therewith, the jury are instructed to consider the testimony in reference to the special defense along with all of the evidence in the case, and that, in order to convict, the jury must be satisfied of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, after considering all of the evidence and the prisoner’s statement. The omission of the word “reasonable” before satisfaction is not reversible error. See Ledford v. State, 75 Ga. 856; Harris v. State, 120 Ga. 167 (47 S. E. 520). In Harrison v. State, 83 Ga. 130 (9 S. E. 542), the Supreme Court has laid down the rule touching alibi which it would be well for the trial judges to follow; but the charge in the present case is not erroneous when tested by that decision. Nor is the instruction here complained of subject to the objections pointed out in Raysor v. State, 132 Ga. 237 (63 S. E. 786).
2. The evidence fully authorized the verdict. Judgment affirmed.