5 Ga. App. 606 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1909
1. The fact that the name of a witness for the State, on the back of the indictment, was erased and the word “dead” written opposite the erased name, and that the indictment in this condition was given to the jury, does not constitute reversible error, especially where it does not appear when the erasure was made and the word “dead” written, or that, by the exercise of due diligence, the condition of the indictment could not have been discovered by the defendant or his counsel and the attention of the court called to it during the progress of the trial.
2. All reasonable latitude should be allowed attorneys in their arguments to the jury on the facts and on inferences and deductions from the facts. The argument of the solicitor-general in this case was ■ fairly dedueible from the evidence. Walker v. State, ante, 367 (63 S. E. 1, 2).
-3. The evidence in support of the verdict is weak and not altogether satisfactory, but we can not say that it was wholly unwarranted; and the verdict having been approved by the trial court, we are not authorized to disturb it. Judgment affirmed.