SWANN v. STATE

67201.

169 Ga. App. 429 (1984)

313 S.E.2d 131

SWANN v. THE STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

Decided January 4, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Dunham McAllister, for appellant.

Robert E. Keller, District Attorney, Mary Jane Stewart, Albert B. Collier, Assistant District Attorneys, for appellee.


POPE, Judge.

Defendant Swann was indicted and convicted of theft by taking and sentenced to serve three years. He appeals, alleging the trial court erred in failing to give a requested charge on the burden of proof in a case based on circumstantial evidence, and in referring to the defendant as "the prisoner at the bar" during its charge to the jury.

1. We find no merit in Swann's contention that the trial court erred in failing to charge the jury in these...

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