58 Ga. App. 373 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1938
While disqualification of a grand juror propter defectum may be good ground for quashing a criminal accusation preferred by the grand jury of which he was a member (Clackum v. State, 55 Ga. App. 44, 189 S. E. 397), this objection can not be raised for the first time, after verdict, by motion for new trial. Kato v. State, 33 Ga. App. 342 (126 S. E. 266), and cit. The complaint made in the first special ground of the motion for new trial, that one of the grand jurors who returned the indictment against the defendant was not a duly qualified grand juror, in that he was not drawn by the court to serve at the term at which the indictment was returned, is therefore without merit.
A man is presumed to intend the natural consequences of his acts. The natural consequence of shooting at another with a pistol, where death ensues, is death. Thus, “if a deadly weapon be used in a homicide in the usual and natural manner in which such weapon would produce that result, the presumption of an intention to kill would arise.” Hanvey v. State, 68 Ga. 612, 613. If the evidence should disclose an unintentional use of a deadly weapon in the usual and natural manner in which such weapon
The evidence amply supported the verdict of voluntary manslaughter. The judge did not err in overruling the motion for new trial.
Judgment affirmed.