Cowart v. State
This text of 125 S.E. 770 (Cowart v. State) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Court of Appeals of Georgia primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.
Opinion
1. Although in a criminal ease the accused alone can put his general character in issue, yet he can do so as effectively by his statement to the jury as by introducing sworn testimony on that subject. Barnes v. State, 24 Ga. App. 372 (3), (4). Under this ruling and the facts of the instant case, this court can not hold, as a matter of law, that the trial judge erred in ruling that the accused, by his statement to the jury, had put his general character in issue, and in permitting the State thereafter to introduce evidence as to his bad character.
2.’ The other grounds of the motion for a new trial, not being referred to in the brief of counsel for the plaintiff in error, are treated as abandoned.
Judgment affirmed.
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125 S.E. 770, 33 Ga. App. 122, 1924 Ga. App. LEXIS 762, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/opinion/cowart-v-state-gactapp-1924.