Case ID: ga-app_28/html/0545-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Bloodworth, J.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

13363.
    ODOM v. THE STATE.
    There was evidence to support the verdict and there was no merit in any ground of the motion for a new trial.
    Decided May 9, 1922.
    Indictment for larceny of automobile; from Fulton superior court — Judge W. L. Hodges presiding. January 21, 1922.
    
    
      George T. Fielding, W. D. Mills, for plaintiff in error.
    
      John A. Boyldn, solicitor-general, E. A. Stephens, contra.
   Bloodworth, J.

1. There is no merit in any of the grounds of the motion for a new trial.

2. There is evidence to support the finding of the jury, and “the verdict having been approved by the trial judge, under the repeated and uniform rulings of this court and of the Supreme Court a reviewing court is powerless to interfere. When the verdict is apparently decidedly against the weight of evidence, the trial judge has a wide discretion as to granting or refusing a new trial; but whenever there is any evidence, however slight, to support a verdict which has been approved by the trial judge, this court is absolutely without authority to control the judgment of the trial court.” Bradham v. State, 21 Ga. App 510 (94 S. E. 618), and cit.

Judgment affirmed.

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