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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Williams v. The State.
    .Simmons, J. — The motion for a new trial having, by an order passed at the term when the case was tried, been set for a hearing on a day named in vacation, the order providing that the movant should have until that day to make out and file a brief of the evidence, and the hearing having then been continued until the next term of the superior court by an order which preserved until the hearing at that term the movant’s right to file and have approved abrief of the evidence, and the brief having been filed before that term, it was error to then refuse to approve it and to dismiss the motion on the ground that no brief of evidence had been filed within thirty days from the adjournment of the court at which the verdict was found. Brunswick etc. Co. v. Gale, 91 Ga. 813, 819; Adamson v. Melson, 91 Ga. 725.
    
    October 8,1894.
    Motion for new trial. Before Judge Janes. Douglas superior court. May term, 1894.
    W. A. James, for plaintiff in error.
    A. Richardson, solicitor-general, contra.
    
   Judgment reversed.