Great American Indemnity Co. v. Oxford

“1. The rule announced in the Penal Code, § .985 [§ 38-111], declaring the distinction ordinarily existing be ’tween the weight to be given to positive testimony and that to be .given to negative testimony, while ofttimes useful to the jury as tending to facilitate the reconciliation of apparent conflicts in the evidence, is so inaptly stated in the Code section referred to that to instruct the jury in the language there given is ordinarily error. Warrick v. State, 125 Ga. 133, 142 [53 S. E. 1027]; Minor v. State, 120 Ga. 490 [48 S. E. 198]; Cowart v. State, 120 Ga. 510 [48 S. E. 198]; So.…