Bohannon v. State

Carley, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was tried before a jury and found guilty of burglary and kidnapping with bodily harm. Thereafter, no timely motion for new trial or notice of appeal was ever filed. Appellant brings this direct appeal from the denial of his extraordinary motion for new trial.

“Extraordinary motions for new trial are not favored. [Cit.] Such motions are contemplated for events that do not ordinarily occur in the transaction of human affairs. [Cit.]” Cade v. State, 107 Ga. App. 30 (1) (129 SE2d 405) (1962). “ ‘And such an extraordinary state of facts must have been unknown to…