Case ID: ga-app_7/html/0621-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hill, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

2487.
    Napper, alias Napier, v. The State.
    Conviction of manslaughter; from Bibb superior court — Judge Felton. February 11, 1910.
    Argued March 22,
    Decided April 6, 1910.
    
      O. G. Hancock, for plaintiff in error.
    W. J. Grace, solicitor-general, contra.
   Hill, C. J.

1. The refusal to grant a new trial because of alleged newly discovered testimony in a homicide case will not be disturbed, where the new testimony was that of a witness who had testified before the coroner’s jury, and was contradictory of his previous testimony, and where the motion for a new trial was not supported by any showing by the defendant or his counsel, as to their diligence, or that before the trial they did not know of the alleged newly discovered evidence.

2. No error of law is complained of, and the verdict of manslaughter is amply supported by the evidence. Judgment affirmed.