Lemming v. State

1. The alleged newly discovered evidence tended only to impeach the State’s witness. There are literally hundreds of decisions which hold that newly discovered evidence which is merely impeaching in its character is not a good ground for a new trial.

•2. A'juror whose brother married the sister of the prosecutor’s wife did not thereby become related to the prosecutor so as to be disqualified. The brother became related to his wife’s relatives. The juror did not become so related. As was s'aid by Judge Bleckley in Central Railroad & Banking Co. v. Roberts, 91 Ga. 513, 517 (18 S. E. 315):

“The…