Anderson v. State

The verdict in this case is supported by the direct, positive and unequivocal testimony of the prosecuting witness, and even if there were nothing to corroborate him, a peremptory charge would be improper.: -The argument that the verdict is against the great weight of the evidence might be serious had appellants ■made a motion for a new trial assigning that as a ground, ;bqt they wholly omitted to do so. The rule announced in Justice v. State, 170 Miss. 96, 154 So. 265, fourteen years ago, that we conld not review a case on that ground in the absence of a motion for a new trial, has never…