Case ID: ga_149/html/0473-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Gilbert, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wheeler v. The State.
    No. 1472.
    October 14, 1919.
    Indictment for rape. Before Judge Walker. Wilkes superior court. May 7, 1919.
    (Former decision in 148 Ga. 508 (97 S. E. 408).
    
      Hugh E. Combs and Colley & Colley, for plaintiff in error. Clifford Walker, attorney-general, R. C. Norman, solicitor-general, and M. C. Bennet, contra.
   Gilbert, J.

1. “Evidence that one of the State’s witnesses since the trial has made declarations, even though - under oath, that his testimony given upon the trial was false, is not cause for a new trial.” Johnson v. State, 149 Ga. 214 (99 S. E. 609), and authorities cited. More especially is this true where the motion for new trial is made on extraordinary grounds, as in the present case.

2, “The extraordinary motions or cases contemplated hy the statute are such as do not ordinarily occur in the transaction of human affairs; as, when a man has been convicted of murder and it afterwards appears that the supposed deceased is still alive, or where one is convicted on the testimony of a witness who is subsequently found guilty of perjury in giving that testimony, or where there has been some providential cause, and cases of like character.” Cox v. Hillyer, 65 Ga. 57; Harris v. Roan, 119 Ga. 379 (46 S. E. 433).

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.