Williams v. State

1. It has been well settled by repeated rulings of the • Supreme Court and of this court that an affidavit by a witness for the state, made! since the trial of the case, that his testimony given upon the trial was false, is not cause for a new trial. Hayes v. State, 16 Ga. App. 334 (2) (85 S. E. 253), and citations.(a) This is especially true where the motion for a new trial is based upon extraordinary grounds. Wheeler v. State, 149 Ga. 473 (1) (100 S. E. 568).

2. “An affidavit in support of the witness upon whose newly discovered evidence a new trial is sought must give the names of his…