3 Ga. App. 20
Decided November 14, 1907
Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1907-11-14
<p>Indictment for unlawful sale of liquor, from Douglas superior court — Judge Edwards. August 24, 1907.</p>
Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1942
1 state decisions
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Decided 1907-11-14
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¶1Por the trial judge to state, in the hearing of the jury on the trial of a criminal ease, that if the defendant did not put in any evidence he would direct a verdict against the defendant, is manifest error, and imperatively requires the grant of a new trial, however conclusive the evidence establishing guilt. Penal Code, § 1032.
¶2Judgment reversed.