Case ID: ga_168/html/0747-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Atkinson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Ficklin v. The State.
    No. 7172.
    June 12, 1929.
    Rehearing denied July 19, 1929.
   Atkinson, J.

1. The only assignment of error in the bill of exceptions is upon the refusal of the judge to grant a rule nisi calling upon the solicitor-general to show cause why a new trial should not be granted upon an extraordinary motion based on alleged newly discovered evidence, presented to the judge by a defendant who had been convicted of murder without a recommendation. The evidence was of such character as would have authorized the grant of a new trial, but there was no such showing of diligence ón the part of the defendant, or of the attorney representing him prior to his extraordinary motion for a new trial, as would require a reversal of the judgment refusing to entertain the extraordinary motion for a new trial.

2. It was insisted in the argument before this court and in the brief of the attorney for the plaintiff in error that there should be a reversal, because it affirmatively appears from the form of the judgment sent up in the record that the judge failed to exercise a discretion in the matter. This point was not made by the assignment of error, and can not be raised for the first time in the brief or argument by the attorney for the plaintiff in error.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.

on motion hob rehearing.

The only assignment of error was as follows: “Be it further remembered, that after consideration the said judge of the superior court, as aforesaid, refused to sign an order requiring the State’s counsel to show cause why a new trial should not be granted. To which order and judgment of the court the petitioner, George Bicklin aforesaid, then and there excepted, and now excepts and assigns the same as error, and says that the court should have signed the rule nisi on said extraordinary motion for a new trial, and erred in refusing to do so.”

Motion for rehearing denied.

All the Justices concur.

H. Mercer Jordan, for plaintiff in error.

George M. Napier, attorney-general, Julian IJartridge, solicitor-general pro iem., and T. B. Gress, assistant attorney-general, contra.