Case ID: ga_135/html/0659-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lumpkin, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Wimms v. The State.
    February 14, 1911.
    Indictment for murder. Before Judge Park. Turner superior court. November 14, 1910.
    
      Z. Bass and W. A. Hawhins, for plaintiff in error.
    
      H. A. Hail, attorney-general, and W. B. Wooten, solicitor-general, by F. A. Hoofer, contra.
   Lumpkin, J.

1. There was no merit in the criticism on the charge of the court because, in beginning his instructions, he stated that he recognized that some of the jury were weary and1 their minds flagging by reason of their arduous duties during the current week.

2. The newly discovered evidence merely tended to impeach the witnesses' for the State, and furnished no ground for a new trial.

3. The verdict was supported by the evidence, and the court did not err in overruling the motion for a new trial.

Judgment a/jirmed.

All the Justices concur.