RICKS v. STATE

17790.

209 Ga. 2 (1952)

70 S.E.2d 373

RICKS v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 14, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Alonzo Woods, for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, J. R. Parham, Assistant Attorney-General, and W. H. Lanier, Solicitor-General, contra.


HEAD, Justice.

1. In the first ground of the amended motion for new trial error is assigned because the court allowed Walter M. Lamb, Chief of Police of Swainsboro, to testify in rebuttal of the defendant's statement, when this witness had not been put under the rule relative to the sequestration of witnesses.

The defendant in his statement asserted that the deceased was making an attack on him with a knife at the time that he shot the deceased, and the defendant...

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