Loughbidge v. State
Loughbidge v. State
Opinion of the Court
(After stating the foregoing facts.) Motions for new trial based on newly discovered evidence are addressed largely to the discretion of the trial judge,, and his order refusing a new trial on such grounds will not be reversed unless it is made to appear that the trial judge has abused his discretion. Hall v. State, 141 Ga. 7 (3) (80 S. E. 307); Frank v. State, 142 Ga. 617 (83 S. E. 233).
In this case the deceased was shot and killed while in an automobile with H. H. Humphries, who identified Loughridge as the killer. The testimony of Humphries shows that he rode in the car
Counsel for the defendant in their brief make reference to the evidence of alibi introduced on the trial of the defendant, which trial resulted in the verdict of guilty, and which the defendant now seeks to have reviewed by extraordinary motion for new trial. Counsel apparently assume that the evidence as to the alibi is supported by the affidavit of Jordan. If a new, trial should be granted upon the affidavit of Jordan, it would have to be under the theory that Jordan committed the crime for which Loughridge has been convicted, and not because Jordan’s affidavit -supports the defendant’s defense of alibi. The case of Bowman v. State, 95 Ga. 496 (22 S. E. 274), cited by counsel for the defendant,,is not in point on its facts. From an examination of the record in the Bowman case, it appears that the newly discovered evidence was set out in an amended ground of the motion for new trial, and this court stated that the evidence to sustain the verdict was not wholly satisfactory. The present case is an extraordinary motion for new trial, and this court has previously held that the evidence on the trial was sufficient to support the conviction of the defendant. Loughridge v. State, supra. In the Bowman case, the deponent in the affidavit had been convicted of the crime, and he named the person who was with him at the time the crime was committed, who was not the accused. In the present case Jordan has not been convicted of the crime here involved, and he declined to state the name of the person he claims was with him at the time the crime was committed.
Judgment affirmed..
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