153 Ga. 95 | Ga. | 1922
Kelley Collins, Roach Sikes, Geofge Sikes, and Abram Sikes were jointly tried on an indictment charging them jointly with the murder of Wade H. Coleman, by wilfully and maliciously killing him in Tattnall county on July 24, 1920, by then and there shooting him with-a rifle and shotguns. Coleman was a deputy sheriff, and, as the State contended, had been active in his efforts to arrest and prosecute violators of the pro
While the instructions might have been more aptly phrased, yet
The failure of the court to instruct the jury as complained of in these three grounds of the motion is not cause for a new trial. The defendants did not set up either in the statements made by two of them to the jury or in the testimony under oath given by all of them, that they shot the deceased to protect Abram Sikes as the brother of two and the brother-in-law of one of them, but
Judgment affirmed.