Case ID: ga_105/html/0489-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Simmons, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Weston v. The State.
    Argued March 21,
    Decided April 11, 1898.
    Motion for new trial. Before Judge Gober. Cobb superior court. November term,. 1897.
    
      H. B. Moss, for plaintiff in error. Thomas Hutcherson,, solicitor-general, by Holce Smith & H. C. Peeples, contra.
   Simmons, C. J.

The judge of the superior court of one circuit presided in the trial of a criminal case in another circuit. During the term of the court at which the case was tried, he passed an order setting the hearing of a motion for a new trial, filed by the accused, for September 20, 1897, at the place of the judge’s residence, to which order no objection was then made by movant’s counsel. Afterwards, by consent of counsel, the hearing of the motion was deferred to December 16,. 1897. Upon the call of the motion on the day last named, there was no appearance for movant. Held, that the judge who presided at the trial had jurisdiction of the motion at the place designated in the order, and there was no error in dismissing the motion for want of prosecution. Held, further, that, after the motion had been so dismissed, the court in which the conviction was had did not err in enforcing the judgment rendered at the trial of the case.

Judgment affirmed.

All concurring, except Cobb, J., absent.