Williams v. State

“When material evidence, not merely cumulative or impeaching in its character, but relating to new and important facts, is discovered after a trial, and it appears that the failure to discover it before trial was not due to a want of diligence, and when the nature of the newly discovered evidence is such that it might, on am other hearing, produce a different verdict, a motion for a new trial, based on the ground of such newly discovered evidence, should be granted.” Carr v. State, 106 Ga. 737 (32 S. E. 844); Mathews v. State, 56 Ga. 469; Dale v. State, 88 Ga. 552 (5) (15 S. E. 287); Fellows…