PERKINS v. STATE

53705.

141 Ga. App. 893 (1977)

234 S.E.2d 715

PERKINS v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided April 12, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mullis, Reynolds, Marshall & Horne, Arthur L. Phillips, for appellant.

Walker P. Johnson, Jr., District Attorney, Don Thompson, Willis B. Sparks, III, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.


WEBB, Judge.

Carey E. Perkins was convicted of theft by taking and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. On appeal he enumerates as error the overruling of his motion for new trial, which was on the general grounds, but argues that the court erred in charging the jury and in allowing testimony which put his character in issue.

1. The particular language objected to was used in the charge defining reasonable doubt: "It is not a fancy or a conjecture or...

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