Lott v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for murder — conviction of voluntary manslaughter; from Coffee superior court — Judge Summerall. February 9, 1916.
1Opinion of the CourtBboyles, J.
1. The alleged newly discovered evidence is merely cumulative and impeaching in its character. It is evident, from an examination of both the brief of evidence in the record and this alleged newly discovered evidence, that the latter is not “newly discovered” at all, but that merely some additional witnesses have been “discovered” since the trial of the case who would, upon another trial, give testimony to the same effect as that of witnesses upon the former trial. Accordingly, the court did not err in overruling the grounds of the motion for a new trial which were based up on this alleged…
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