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25 Ga. App. 504

Bennett v. State

Court of Appeals of Georgia

Decided March 10, 1920

Court of Appeals of Georgia · decided 1920-03-10

Indictment for misdemeanor; from city court of Alma — Judge L. D. Luke. March 10, 1920. The indictment charged that T. H. Bennett unlawfully cut and felled timber on uninclosed lands of Joseph Johnson.

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently July 1924

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Relies on 21 Ga. App. 510 - Bradham v. State

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Decided 1920-03-10

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Bloodworth, J.

¶1“ In this case the motion for a new trial contained only the usual general grounds. There was some slight evidence authorizing the verdict; and the verdict having been approved by the trial judge, under the repeated and uniform rulings of this court and of the Supreme Court a reviewing court is *506powerless to interfere. When the verdict is apparently decidedly against the weight of the evidence, the trial judge has a wide discretion as to granting or refusing a new trial; but whenever there is any evidence, however slight, to support a verdict which has been approved by the trial judge, this court is absolutely without authority to control the judgment of the trial court.” Bradham v. State, 21 Ga. App. 510 (94 S. E. 618), and cit.

¶2Judgment affirmed.

Broyles, C. J., concurs.
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