Lancaster v. State

The practice is general in this State that motions for new trial are heard and determined without the hearing of oral evidence thereon.' Conceding, for present purposes, that a trial judge may, in his discretion, hear oral evidence in order to determine whether he will grant or refuse a new trial, in the present case no error is shown from the refusal to cause a witness to be brought before the judge for oral examination on the hearing of such motion.

A ground of the motion for new trial complains that the court admitted, over objection of counsel for the defendant, the testimony of John H.…