Case Name: Collins et al. v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1906-02-15
Citations: 124 Ga. 788
Docket Number: 
Parties: Collins et al. v. The State.
Judges: All the Justices concur.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 124
Pages: 788–788

Head Matter:
Collins et al. v. The State.
Argued January 15,
Decided February 15, 1906.
Indictment for robbery. Before Judge Roan. Fulton superior court. December 2, 1905.
Robert L. Rodgers, for plaintiff in error.
Charles D. Hill, solicitor-general, contra.

Opinion:
Evans, J.
1. Where, on the hearing of a motion for a new trial, the mov-ant tenders affidavits as to certain newly discovered evidence, it is not error for the court to grant the solicitor-general time to procure an affidavit in rebuttal from a non-resident witness, and, after such affidavit is obtained, to consider it in passing upon that ground of the 'motion which is based on newly discovered evidence.
2. It js not cause for a new trial that the witness upon whose testimony the State relied has made, since the trial, a statement contradictory to his testimony. Jordan v. State, ante, 417.
3. The evidence authorized the verdict, which was approved by the trial judge, and there was no abuse of discretion in overruling the motion for a new trial.
Judgment affirmed.
All the Justices concur.