Case ID: ga-app_28/html/0120-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bloodworth, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

13046.
    Maxwell v. The State.
    Decided January 18, 1922.
    Indictment for manufacture of liquor; from Wilkes superior court — Judge Shurley. September 29, 1921.
    
      Hugh E. Combs, William Wynne, for plaintiff in error.
    
      M. L. Felts, solicitor-general, contra.
   Bloodworth, J.

1. “A new trial will not be granted in a criminal ease because of the relationship within the prohibited degrees of a juror to the accused, although such relationship was unknown to the accused and his counsel until after verdict.” Downing v. State, 114 Ga. 30 (1) (39 S. E. 927); Barnes v. State, 17 Ga. App. 266 (2) (86 S. E. 461).

2. No error of law is shown to have been committed; the jury, who are the final arbiters where there is conflicting evidence, believed that of the State; the trial judge approved their finding; and the judgment is Affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., and Luke, J., concur.