JOHNSON v. STATE

20807, 20808, 20810.

215 Ga. 839 (1960)

114 S.E.2d 35

JOHNSON v. THE STATE. EPPS v. THE STATE. ALFORD v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided April 7, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James E. Weldon, Wilson P. Darden, L. M. Wyatt, for plaintiffs in error.

Wright Lipford, Solicitor-General, E. W. Fleming, Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Rubye G. Jackson, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.


HEAD, Presiding Justice.

The defendants were indicted for the offense of rape. They were tried jointly, were convicted, and sentenced to be electrocuted. Each excepts to the denial of his motion for new trial as amended (the grounds being the same in each case). Only the assignments of error made in grounds 8 and 9 of the amended motions require any elaboration.

In ground 8 error is assigned on the following extract from the charge of the court: "Gentlemen...

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