Carpenter v. State, (No. 17106).
Decision Date | 12 May 1926 |
Docket Number | (No. 17106). |
Citation | 133 S.E. 350,35 Ga.App. 349 |
Parties | CARPENTER . v. STATE. |
Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
(Syllabus by Editorial Staff.)
Error from Superior Court, Telfair County; Eschol Graham, Judge.
D. L. Carpenter brings error. Affirmed.
L. C. Harrell, of McRae, and Hal Dawson, of Abbeville, for plaintiff in error.
M. H. Boyer, Sol. Gen., of Hawkinsville, for the State.
Syllabus Opinion by the Court.
BLOODWORTH, J. Civil Code, § 6086. Williams v. State, 34 Ga. App. 174, 128 S. E. 589. '
This extraordinary motion is based upon alleged newly discovered evidence. In the record there is no affidavit of counsel for plaintiff in error "that they did not know of the existence of such evidence before the trial, and that the same could not have been discovered by the exercise of ordinary diligence, " no affidavit as to the character and credibility of the witness Harvie Matins, and the supporting affidavits as to Mitch Eady and Lanier Cauley not measuring up to the requirements of the statute as announced in the foregoing quotation from the decision in the Williams Case, and these being the witnesses upon whose affidavits this extraordinary motion is predicated, it cannot be said that the trial judge abused his discretion in overruling the motion. See, also, Dekle v....
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