Kolman v. State

The defendant was tried in the city court of Savannah, charged' with the offense of a misdemeanor, and, after conviction, moved for a new trial, which motion the court overruled, and the defendant excepted. The defendant’s motion was based upon the general grounds that the verdict was contrary to law and the evidence and without evidence to support it. -The evidence upon the main question in the case (that is as to whether the defendant was guilty of the specific offense charged, to ivit, that he “did instigate the cruel treatment of a domestic animal”) is conflicting; but the motion for a…