JONES v. STATE

44698.

120 Ga. App. 295 (1969)

170 S.E.2d 305

JONES v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided September 10, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. L. Gower, R. E. Llorens, for appellant.

Lewis R. Slaton, District Attorney, Tony H. Hight, for appellee.


EBERHARDT, Judge.

Willie Hoyt Jones was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. His motion for new trial was overruled and he appeals. Held:

1. The general grounds are without merit.

2. It was not error to admit, as a part of the res gestae, a statement made by defendant's mother, who had witnessed the stabbing, made to a neighbor to whose house she had gone within a few minutes after the event, while in a highly nervous and excited condition,...

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