Widner v. State

1. One ground of the motion for new trial in this ease is based upon alleged newly discovered evidence, 'and this is furnished by the affidavits of three witnesses; but no affidavits as to the intelligence of the witnesses, their associates, their means of knowledge, their character and credibility, were adduced, in-accordance with the provisions requiring this under the statute contained in section 6086 of the Civil Code, and no facts are shown by affidavits or otherwise to take this ease out of the operation of the rule. Nor was the judge, under thg *332affidavits submitted, compelled to find…