Meadow v. State
Meadow v. State
Opinion of the Court
The defendant was convicted of possessing whisky, and excepts to the overruling of his motion for a new trial. The only special ground of the motion for a new trial is based upon a remark, alleged to be improper and prejudicial to the rights of the defendant, which was made by the solicitor in his argument to the jury. The ground does not meet the requirements set out in Trammell v. Shirley, 38 Ga. App. 719 (145 S. E. 486), rule 25, in that it fails to allege that the movant made a motion for a mistrial before the verdict was rendered, or that the court refused to grant a mistrial, or that it is probable that the injury was not eradicated by the instructions to the jury to disregard the remarks. However, in view of the court’s instructions to the jury to disregard the remark of the solicitor, and since there was no motion for a mistrial, and in view of the evidence in the case, the remark of counsel for the State, though improper, will not warrant the grant of another trial.
Judgment affirmed.
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