SPENCER v. STATE

20498.

215 Ga. 183 (1959)

109 S.E.2d 588

SPENCER v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided July 8, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ben F. Smith, Albert Adair, for plaintiff in error.

Luther C. Hames, Jr., Solicitor-General, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


DUCKWORTH, Chief Justice.

Nathaniel Spencer was indicted, tried, and convicted in Cobb Superior Court of murder, and the jury failed to return a recommendation for mercy. Thereafter, the defendant filed a motion for new trial which was subsequently amended and, after a hearing, denied. The exception is to that judgment. Held:

1. Justifiable homicide being a substantive and affirmative defense placed in issue by the evidence, and the court having failed...

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