40 Ga. App. 123 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1929
E. J. and T. Davis were indicted for the murder of Bant Groover. They pleaded not guilty. The trial resulted in a verdict of voluntary manslaughter. The defendants made a motion for a new trial, and when this was overruled they filed a bill of exceptions.
Only the first headnote needs elaboration. In speciál ground 1 of the motion for a new trial the court is alleged to have erred in allowing a witness to swear that in June prior to the homicide in September he heard E. J. Davis, one of the defendants, say: “I knocked
Judgment affirmed.