49 Ga. 255 | Ga. | 1872
The defendant was indicted for the offense of an assault, with intent to murder. On the trial, the jury found him guilty of the lesser offense of stabbing. A motion was made for a new trial, on the several grounds set forth in the record, which was overruled, and the defendant excepted. The principal ground of error insisted on before this Court was, that the Court below'limited the defendant’s counsel to thirty minutes in his argument before the jury, over his protest that he could not do justice to his client’s case within the limited time prescribed by the Court. It appears from the certificate of the presiding Judge that he allowed the defendant’s counsel forty minutes t© address the jury — that is to say, he allowed him to go ten minutes over the time prescribed at the commencement of the argument.
Let the judgment of tike Court beloAV be reversed.