Howard v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Conviction of shooting at another; from Muscogee superior court — Judge Humphries presiding. May 16, 1921. Application for certiorari was denied by the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtBroyles, C. J.
1. The alleged newly discovered evidence is not of such a character as would probably produce a different verdict upon another trial of the case. Furthermore, it appears from all the facts of the case, as disclosed by the record, that this evidence could have been secured before the case was submitted to the jury, by the exercise of due diligence on the part of the accused and her counsel.
2. Conceding, but not deciding, that the remarks of the court, addressed to the defendant while she was making her statement to the jury, tended to prejudice the jury against the accused, such remarks cannot…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Grigg v. StateCourt of Appeals of Georgia · 1918