46 Ga. App. 776 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1933
The evidence, both oral and documentary, the admission of which is complained of in special grounds 1 to 12 inclusive, of the motion for a new trial, was material and relevant to the case, and was properly admitted by the trial court.
The various excerpts from the charge of the court, assigned as error, when considered in the light of the remainder of the charge and the facts of the case, disclose no reason for a reversal Of the judgment.
A ground of the motion for new trial is as follows: “Because the court erred in refusing to allow counsel for defendant, in his argument to the jury, to read to the jury in the presence of the court an extract from a certain decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia which counsel was about to read to the jury without addressing the
The evidence authorized the defendant’s conviction of the offense charged (burning an automobile with the intent to defraud the insurer thereof). The State introduced in evidence the written confession of the accused; and other evidence authorized a finding that the confession was voluntarily made, without being induced by another by the slightest hope of benefit or the remotest fear of injury. The confession was sufficiently corroborated by other evidence to show that the burning was caused by a criminal agency, and that the defendant was the actual perpetrator of the crime.
The refusal to grant a new trial was not error for any reason assigned.
Judgment affirmed.