Bell v. State
| Decision Date | 10 September 1918 |
| Docket Number | 694. |
| Citation | 96 S.E. 861,148 Ga. 352 |
| Parties | BELL v. STATE. |
| Court | Georgia Supreme Court |
Syllabus by the Court.
Where a judge in the course of his instructions to the jury in the trial of one charged with the offense of murder charges them that before they will be authorized to convict they must be convinced by the evidence, beyond a reasonable doubt, the failure to charge further upon the subject of reasonable doubt, or to define reasonable doubt, is not cause for the grant of a new trial. Nelms v. State, 123 Ga. 575, 51 S.E. 588.
There was sufficient evidence to authorize the verdict.
Error from Superior Court, Coweta County; J. R. Terrell, Judge.
Emmett Bell was convicted of murder, and brings error. Affirmed.
W. C. Wright, of Newnan, for plaintiff in error.
C. E. Roop, Sol. Gen., of Carrollton, Clifford Walker, Atty. Gen., and M. C. Bennet, of Atlanta, for the State.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.
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