Case ID: ga_103/html/0571-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lewis, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Waters et al. v. The State.
    Argued February 7,
    Decided February 28, 1898.
    Indictment for gaming. Before Judge Fite. Cobb superior court. November term, 1897.
    
      Mozley & Griffin, for plaintiffs in error. Thomas Hutcherson, solicitor-general, by Hoke Smith & H. C. Peeples, contra.
   Lewis, J.

1. A failure to give in charge to the jury the law on the subject of impeachment of witnesses is not ground for a new trial, where no request for such charge has been made. Smith v. Page, 72 Ga. 539; Cole v. Byrd, 83 Ga. 207; Lewis v. State, 91 Ga. 168; Skinner v. State, 95 Ga. 127.

2. While the evidence in this case was conflicting, the jury believed the witnesses for the State; and the trial judge being satisfied with that finding, this court will not overrule his discretion in refusing to grant a new trial.

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concurring.