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11 Ga. App. 850

Webb v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided May 7, 1912

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1912-05-07

Indictment for assault witli intent to rape — conviction of assault and battery; from Milton superior court — Judge Morris. September 23, 1911. The requests to charge, the refusal of wbicb was assigned as error, related to the presumption of innocence, the degree of proof required, and reasonable doubt.

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Decided 1912-05-07

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Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 1944

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Russell, J.

¶1There is evidence as to the identity of the accused which authorizes the conclusion reached by the jury, and this court is without jurisdiction to disturb their finding upon disputed issues of fact. None of the special assignments of error are of sufficient mex'it to warrant a reversal of the judgment refusing a new trial. It is not made to appear that any one of the matters of which complaint is made could have prejudiced the accused, or have contributed to the verdict against him. It is plain that the ease depended entirely upon the identification of an assailant who was unknown to the prosecuting witness. The requests to charge, so far as appropriate, were sufficiently covered in the general charge; and though the competency of some of the evidence admitted was px-ima facie doubtful, a review of the evidence as a whole shows that the statements to which objection was made can properly be considered as part of the res gestee of the transaction.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

Pottle, J., not presiding.Gober & Griffin, J. T. Houze, for plaintiff in error.J. P. Brooke, solicitor-general, contra.
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