107 Ga. App. 643 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1963
1. Where, after the jury had retired to consider their verdict they returned to the courtroom and requested instructions as to the effect of a maximum and minimum sentence, and asked the court if, after serving the minimum term fixed by the sentence and being paroled, a prisoner commits another felony, would he be returned to serve the remainder of the sentence; and where the court told the jury that he could not give them any instructions regarding a parole, but then proceeded to instruct them that the prison authorities have certain rules and regulations which they have formulated and under which they release a prisoner
2. The portion of the charge complained of in .the first special ground of the motion was not harmful or reversible for any reason assigned. Inasmuch as the case is to be tried again, the general grounds of the motion for new trial are not considered or passed upon;
Judgment reversed.