Clough v. Greyhound Corporation

In special ground 6 of the amended motion for new trial, error is assigned on the overruling of an objection to the admission of evidence that no charge was made at the police station against the driver of the bus in which the plaintiff was a passenger. An acquittal in a criminal proceeding dealing *247with the same subject matter is not evidence for the defendant in a civil action. Cottingham v. Weeks, 54 Ga. 275. A plaintiff may not show, in a civil action for damages resulting from an automobile collision, that the defendant was adjudged guilty in traffic court for an offense in connection…