Murray v. State

Clark, Judge.

A verdict of guilty on two counts for cruelty to children was entered by a jury in the Hall County1 Superior Court. After judgment was rendered defendant appealed directly to this court. We ruled adversely to appellant in that case in Murray v. State, 135 Ga. App. 264.

During the pendency of his appeal in the original case appellant filed an extraordinary motion for new trial on the basis of affidavits and juvenile court testimony by the mother of the children in which she had recanted her previous in-court statements. In denying this motion the trial judge stated that he had…