Case ID: ga_120/html/0510-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Evans, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cowart v. The State.
    Argued June 21,
    Decided July 12, 1904.
    Indictment for adultery. Before Judge Daley. ■ Tattnall superior court. May 18, 1904.
    
      Twiggs & Oliver and Walter F. Grey, for plaintiff in error.
    
      B.. T. Rawlings, solicitor-general, contra.
   Evans, J.

A charge to the effect that the testimony of a witness testifying positively is entitled to more weight than that of one who testifies negatively is cause for a new trial, where one of the parties relies almost entirely on negative evidence, unless the court further charges that, in weighing the testimony of such witnesses, the jury should consider and pass upon the question of their credibility. Southern Ry. Co. v. O'Bryan, 115 Ga. 659, 660, citing approvingly Humphries v. State, 100 Ga. 260, and Atlanta Railway Co. v. Bigham, 105 Ga. 498. The present case is controlled by these decisions Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur.