Edge v. Thomas
| Decision Date | 25 July 1911 |
| Docket Number | (No. 3,383.) |
| Parties | EDGE. v. THOMAS. |
| Court | Georgia Court of Appeals |
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal and Error (§ 1012*)—Review—Sufficiency of Evidence.
This court, by the constitutional amendment creating it, was limited in jurisdiction to the correction of errors of law alone, and therefore has no power to grant a new trial because the verdict is strongly contrary to the weight of the evidence, if there is any evidence at all to support it.
[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Appeal and Error, Cent. Dig. §§ 3990-3992; Dec. Dig. § 1012.*]
Error from City Court of Forsyth; T. B. Cabaniss, Judge.
Action between Tom Edge and J. M. Thomas. From the judgment, Edge brings error. Affirmed.
J. M. Fletcher and A. M. Zellner, for plaintiff in error.
Persons & Persons, for defendant in error.
POWELL, J. Judgment affirmed.
*.For other cases see same topic and section NUMBER in Dec. Dig. & Am. Dig. Key No. Series & Rep'r Indexes
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...as in the instant case, and there is some evidence on which to base the verdict, this court has no authority to interfere. Edge v. Thomas. 9 Ga. App. 559, 71 S. E. 875; Toole v. Jones, 19 Ga. App. 24, 90 S. E. 732. There was testimony that the state's principal witness had whisky on the day......
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