Martin v. State

1. On. the trial of the defendant in Glynn Superior Court for the offense of sodomy it appears that a boy of 15, a witness for the State, testified on direct examination that he and the defendant did not commit tlie act of which the defendant was accused but only certain preliminaries thereto; that thereupon the solicitor requested a recess; that after the recess, during which the solicitor, the father of the witness, and the witness had had a private conversation, the witness testified that the act referred to was in fact committed, but that he had denied it at first because he had…