Dеfendant was indicted for murder and convicted of voluntary manslaughter. He appeals, enumerating as error the overruling of his motion for nеw trial; five portions of the charge as given; overruling of his two challenges to the array of jurors; hearing the first challenge in defendant’s absеnce; failing to admonish the district attorney for his argument in which he urged his personal belief as to the veracity of the State’s witnesses, and failing adequately to instruct the jury with reference thereto; in permitting, over objection, a witness to testify who was not on the list of witnesses furnished pursuant to a demand; and in failing to furnish a complete list of the witnesses who had testified before the grand jury.
1. (a) The general grounds of the motion for new triаl were without merit.
(b) Although it was stipulated by counsel at the beginning of the trial that the allegations of the indictment were material and it was alleged therein that defendant did kill and murder one Alvin Meeler on June 5, 1969, by shooting him with a pistol, there was no fatal variance in the allegata and probata where it appeared that Meeler was shot on June 5, 1969, but languished and died June 11, 1969. The indictment was returned September 22, 1969. Cf.
Black v. State,
2. A cаreful examination of the record discloses that the issue of voluntary manslaughter was raised by the evidence, and hence we find no error in the giving of the law relative to that offense in charge.
Sinyard v. State,
3. For the same reason we find no error in the inclusion of a charge on the law of mutual combat, and of the doctrine of absolute necessity to justify a killing in self-defense.
Norris v. State,
4. Even if there were error in the overruling of the challеnges to the array (which we do not decide) the error was waived when the defendant moved for a continuance and upon the State’s agreement that the motion be granted, withdrew it and elected to proceed with the trial. He was no longer in position to urge the error, if such there was, for he had waived it. Cf.
Pritchard v. State,
Moreover, defendant was afforded a full panel of regularly drawn and qualified jurors from which to strike, and it appears that he did not find it necessary to exhaust his strikes. No harm is shown, and it is elemental that it is necessary to show harm as well as error before there is ground for reversal.
Cochran v. State,
5. While error is enumerated on the exclusion of defendant from the courtroom during the hearing of his first challenge to the array of the jurors, it is wholly unsupported by аrgument or citation of authority in the brief and is deemed to have been abandoned.
Green
v.
State,
6. Appellant asserts that during his argument to the jury the district attorney urged upon the jury his personal belief as to de *846 fendant’s guilt and as to the veracity of the State’s witnesses, and that he objected to it. The record reveals that defendant’s counsel did make objection, saying "I say that it’s misconduct; it is ground for a mistrial, but I do not move for a mistrial. I do ask that the jury be instructed to disregard it and that the district attorney be admonished not to do it any more.” Whereupon, the court did instruct the jury to disregard thе statements of the district attorney and to proceed only upon the evidence in arriving at a verdict. The district attorney stated "Your Honor, I stand admonished.”
It was, of course, improper for the district attorney to urge his personal belief either as to the defendant’s guilt or аs to the veracity of the witnesses.
Broznack v. State,
7. Appellant enumerates error upon the failure of the district attorney to furnish him with a "list of the witnesses” pursuant to a demand bеfore arraignment. Particularly, he complains that over objection the witness, Dr. Edward Tanner, was permitted to testify and that his name was not on the list which was furnished.
The Constitutional requirement is that the district attorney furnish the accused with a list "of the witnesses on whose testimony the charge against him was founded
(Code Ann.
§ 2-105) but the law does not require the [district attorney] to furnish the accused with a list of all of the witnesses he expects to
*847
use on the trial.”
Britten v. State,
It is conceded that Dr. Edward Tanner did nоt testify before the grand jury, and hence the enumeration as to him is without merit.
Appellant also objected to the testimony of GBI Agent Harold Moorman and Deputy Sheriff A. C. Reid, who did, in fact, testify before the grand jury but whose names were not on the handwritten list. An inspection of the indictment and the list оf witnesses thereon discloses that the names of these witnesses (as well as that of Dr. Tanner) were included. Thus, he knew that these were among the witnesses who were likely to be called against him on the trial. The purpose of the constitutional provision is to afford the defendant an opportunity to know whose testimony he is likely to have to meet and an opportunity to prepare to do so.
If he or his counsеl had desired to interview the witnesses, he might have done so in advance of their appearance on the witness stand. As to any witness whosе name was furnished there could have been no element of surprise. While the names of Moorman and Reid were not on the "handwritten list” they wеre certainly among the first names supplied and we can see no reversible error. If there was error appellant utterly fails to show harm, and absent a showing of harm no ground for a new trial appears.
Judgment affirmed.