155 Ga. 393 | Ga. | 1923
Fleta Chapman, was tried and convicted under an indictment charging her with' the murder of William Chapman. After a verdict of guilty with a recommendation was returned, she made a motion for new trial, which was overruled.
During the progress of the trial counsel for the accused propounded questions- to three different witnesses, intended to elicit evidence to the effect that the deceased was a man of bad character, being turbulent and violent in disposition. The court sustained objections made by- the solicitor-general to these questions, and ruled out the testimony intended to show that the deceased was a man of turbulent and violent character. The ruling of the court excluding this evidence was not error, in the absence of evidence tending to show that at the time the accused shot and killed him he was making any assault upon her or attempting to commit violence upon her, or was in any way the aggressor. “ There was no evidencato show that at the time of-the homicide the decedent
The general grounds of the motion are not insisted on in the brief of counsel for plaintiff in error.
Judgment affirmed'.