Case ID: ga_110/html/0324-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Little, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Aiken v. Haines.
    Argued February 10,
    Decided March 2, 1900.
    Certiorari. Before Judge Falligant. Chatham superior court. December term, 1898.
    
      S. L. Lazaron, for plaintiff in error. G. W. Owens, contra.
   Little, J.

That a justice of the peace stated in the hearing of a jury trying an appeal his opinion that the testimony of an absent witness (without stating what it was) would be material for the defendant, though highly improper conduct on the part of the magistrate, was not, alone, sufficient to constrain the superior court to sustain a certiorari sued out by the defendant for the purpose of setting aside a verdict rendered against him at such trial, when it appeared that this verdict was fully supported by the testimony actually introduced.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.