Court Opinion

ID: 9669751
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 03:08:58.933792+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:00.119464
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing
PRICE, Judge.
It is earnestly insisted that the great weight of the evidence establishes each of the essential elements of self defense and is against the existence of malice in the case, and that we have overlooked the appellant’s main contention, which is that the motion for a new trial should have been granted on the ground that the verdict was contrary to the great weight of the evidence.
It is, of course, the law that where the great weight of evidence is against the verdict and so decided that the court is convinced that the verdict is wrong and unjust, a new trial should be granted. Roan v. State, 225 Ala. 428, 143 So. 454.
But, as was said in Peterson v. State, 227 Ala. 361, 150 So. 156, 162, “No ground for new trial is more carefully scrutinized or more rigidly limited than this, and the presumption in favor of the correctness of the verdict is strengthened when the presiding judge, who saw and heard the witnesses, declines to grant the new trial upon this ground.”
Applying these principles we are unable to say that the verdict was so contrary to the great weight of the evidence as to put the trial court in error for refusing to grant the motion for a new trial.
Application overruled.