Payne v. Reese
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Action for damages; from city court of Richmond county — Judge Black. March 8, 1921.
1Opinion of the CourtStephens, J.
1. Where under the evidence it was a question for the jury whether a material witness for the prevailing party, upon whose testimony the jury may have relied in finding a verdict, swore willfully and knowingly falsely, and was uncorroborated, it was error for the judge, in the absence of any instruction, in his general charge to the jury, as to the rule governing the weighing of the testimony of a witness who has sworn willfully and knowingly falsely, to refuse to charge, after having been timely and properly requested in writing so to do, that part of section 5884 of the Civil Code (1910)…
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