204 GA 295 - Waits v. State

How this case has been cited

Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently November 2009

18 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Jenkins, Chief Justice.

¶11. “A motion to set aside a verdict and judgment is not an appropriate remedy in a criminal case.” Claughton v. State, 179 Ga. 157 (175 S. E. 470), citing Brown v. State, 150 Ga. 585 (104 S. E. 428); McDonald v. State, 126 Ga. 536 (55 S. E. 235); Hughes v. State, 159 Ga. 818 (5) (127 S. E. 109); Gravitt v. State, 165 Ga. 779 (3) (142 S. E. 100).

¶22. Under the foregoing ruling, the trial court did not err in dismissing on motion of the solicitor-general the instant motion to set aside a verdict and judgment rendered March 3, 1947, in a criminal case in which the defendant was convicted and sentenced for robbery by force and violence.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur, except Bell, J., absent on account oj illness.Charles W. Anderson, for plaintiffs in error.Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Hal C. Hutchens, Solicitor-General, and E. L. Reagan, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.