Case ID: ga_96/html/0752-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Atkinson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Doughty v. McMillan et al.
    
    April 1, 1895.
    Brought forward from the last term.
    Complaint in trover. Before Judge Gober. Cobb superior court. May term, 1894.
    Mozley & Morris, for plaintiff.
    Clay & Blair and J. J. Norti-icutt, for defendant.
   Atkinson, J.

Where the trial judge, in his charge to the jury, while giving certain instructions as to admissions, inadvertently used the name of a witness, where he intended to use the name of another person not a witness, and granted a new trial upon the ground that the jury might have been misled by such confusion of names, this court will not control his discretion in granting a new trial, unless the verdict be demanded by the evidence. In this case the evidence being conflicting, the discretion of the judge in granting a new trial will not be disturbed. Judgment affirmed..