Hodnett v. State

Wyatt, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) The plaintiff in error concedes in his brief that the evidence, if believed, was sufficient to authorize a conviction, and that “ordinarily this • court would be without authority to set the verdict aside,” but .argues that “there is ample precedent in prior decisions of this court for varying the rule in cases where a conviction of rape was based on the testimony of a young girl, and where all’ the eircum.stances indicated that her testimony was not credible.” The case of Davis v. State, 152 Ga. 320 (110 S. E. 18), and the cases therein…