Court Opinion

ID: 5553376
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-11 00:36:29.584967+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:35:13.799416
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By the Court

Penning J.
delivering the opinion.
A j udgment granting a new trial, is not final. When, therefore, the Court in which a verdict is rendered is dissatisfied with the verdict, and grants a new trial, the grant will not be disturbed by a reviewing Court, except in an extreme case.
Audit must be admitted, that the present case comes vory *167near to an extreme case. Indeed, as the case stands, ii comes quite to it. As the case stands, there is no affidavit of the truth of the plea; none of an expectation of ability to prove the plea on a new trial.
Therefore, we can only conditionally, affirm the judgment granting the new trial; namely on condition, that an affidavit of these two things be filed in the Court below by McMurrain within a reasonable time, to be judged of by that Court.
Judgment affirmed conditionally.'