Case Name: Hester v. State
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1927-12-05
Citations: 148 Miss. 425
Docket Number: No. 26848
Parties: Hester v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 148
Pages: 425–427

Head Matter:
Hester v. State.
(Division A.
Dec. 5, 1927.)
[114 So. 747.
No. 26848.]
See, also, 110 So. 443.
Bratton <& Mitchell, for appellant.
J. A. Lauderdale, for the state
Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 16CJ, p. 1221, n. 19.

Opinion:
Smith, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
The court below was warranted in believing' that the witness, on account of whose absence the continuance of the case was requested, was not present when the appellant announced ready for trial. Moreover, the evidence which he would have given, if present, would merely have served to impeach a state's witness.
Assuming, but merely for the purpose of the argument, that the court below erred in permitting the introduction of evidence objected to by the appellant, the evidence was not of sufficient prejudice, if any, to him, to warrant the reversal of the judgment.
The motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence is not accompanied by an affidavit showing diligence with reference to the discovery of the evidence on the part of the appellant and his counsel, and no showing relative thereto was otherwise made..
Affirmed.