Long v. State

Jackson, Judge.

The defendant was indicted for robbery; the jury found him guilty. A motion was made for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the evidence and without evidence to support it, contrary to law, and that evidence had been discovered since the trial which would probably have changed the verdict. JThe court refused to grant the new trial, and that refusal is the error assigned.

The facts are briefly these, as proven on the trial: A young man named DeLongcame to Atlanta, sold some meal for $26, bought a bottle of whisky, got in company with a couple of lewd *565women…