Delk v. Strickland
Delk v. Strickland
Opinion of the Court
1. “Under repeated decisions of this court and of the Supreme Court, each special ground of a motion for a new trial must be complete within itself; and when so incomplete-as to require a reference to the brief of the evidence, or to some other portion of the record, in order to determine what was the alleged error and whether such error was material, the ground will not be considered- by the reviewing court.” McCall v. State, 23 Ga. App. 770 (99 S. E. 471); Roddenberry Hardware Co. v. Merritt, 17 Ga. App. 425 (87 S. E. 681), and citations. “Under the rulings of this court and of the Supreme Court, this court will not search through the record to find errors when they are not specifically pointed out in the assignments of error or in the grounds of the motion for a new trial. The rule is that each ground of a motion for a new trial must be complete in itself.” Odum v. Rutledge, 16 Ga. App. 350 (85 S. E. 361). “A ground of a motion for a new trial in which error is assigned on the exclusion of certain testimony is insufficient when it does not appear from the ground itself that the exclusion of the testimony was
The excerpt from the charge of which complaint is made in the motion for a new trial, when considered in connection with the remainder of the instructions given, is not erroneous. “It is not • 'a good assignment of error on a portion of the judge’s charge which ' states a correct principle of law applicable to the case, that some •other correct and appropriate instruction was not given.” Grant v. State, 152 Ga. 252 (1) (100 S. E. 502); and’ authorities cited; Western & Atlantic Railroad Co. v. Bowen, 31 Ga. App. 32 (1) (119 S. E. 426), and citations.
3. There is evidence to support the verdict. . .
Judgment affirmed.
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