Case ID: ga-app_37/html/0627-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Bkotles, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

18572.
    Rogers v. The State.
    Criminal Law, 16 C. J. p. 1189, n. 70.
   Bkotles, C. J.

“Declarations oí a witness after trial, at variance with his sworn testimony, even when made under oath and explicity assorting that his testimony on the trial was false, do not constitute a cause for a new trial.” Smarr v. Kerlin, 21 Ga. App. 813 (2) (95 S. E. 306), and cit. A fortiori, such declarations are not cause for a new trial on an extraordinary motion therefor, such motions not being favored by the courts. Under the above-stated rulings and the facts of the

Decided January 10, 1928.

Arson; from White superior court—Judge I. H. Sutton. September 24, 1927.

W. N. Oliver, for plaintiff in- error.

Robert McMillan, solicitor-general, contra.

instant case, the overruling of the extraordinary motion for a new trial was-not error. Judgment affirmed.

Luke and Bloodworth, JJ., eonour.