Court Opinion

ID: 5604566
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 03:39:00.849507+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:36:54.133871
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Powell, J.
1. The proposition stated in the first headnote is fully sustained by Tucker v. State, 135 Ga. (68 S. E. 786), and Parris v. State, 125 Ga. 777 (4), (54 S. E. 751).
2. The only other special ground presented in the case is that the court refused to give in charge a written request as follows: “A person accused of crime, and knowing that he is liable to be arrested, may, nevertheless, resist with such force as may be necessary an unlawful attempt to commit a crime upon him, even though such an attempt was made by an officer authorized by law to arrest the party; and this is true although the person knew that he was liable to be arrested.” In neither of. the cases before us does this request appear to be pertinent to any phase of the testimony or of the defendant’s statement. The defendants were charged with assault and battery, and it is true that the person assaulted was a policeman, but it nowhere appears that he had accused either Brown or Tucker of any offense, or that they, or either of them, were liable to arrest, or that any attempt to arrest them was made until after the alleged assault and battery was complete.
The evidence authorizes the verdict, and there was no error in overruling the motion for new trial. Judgment affirmed.