Case Name: RICHEY v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1974-06-20
Citations: 132 Ga. App. 188
Docket Number: 49214
Parties: RICHEY v. THE STATE.
Judges: Quillian and Clark, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 132
Pages: 188–188

Head Matter:
49214.
RICHEY v. THE STATE.
Argued April 1, 1974
Decided June 20, 1974.
Hill, Jones & Farrington, William T. Coleman, III, for appellant.
Andrew J. Ryan, Jr., District Attorney, Michael K. Gardner, for appellee.

Opinion:
Bell, Chief Judge.
Defendant, convicted and sentenced for burglary, appeals from the overruling of his motion for new trial. The only ground of the motion argued before this court relates to alleged newly discovered evidence. This newly discovered evidence consists of the purported post-trial declaration of a material witness for the state who gave testimony at the trial strongly tending to show the defendant's guilt. A post-trial declaration by a state's witness that his former testimony was false is not a cause for a new trial. Felton v. State, 56 Ga. 84; Fowler v. State, 187 Ga. 406 (1 SE2d 18).
Judgment affirmed.
Quillian and Clark, JJ., concur.