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29 Tex. 490

Cambpell v. State

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1861

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1861-07-01

<p>Appeal from Grimes.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently January 1915

2 state decisions

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Decided 1861-07-01

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Bell, J.

¶1There is no error in the judgment of the court below. The Code of Criminal Procedure, Art. 672, 6th subdivision, provides that a motion for a new trial, on the ground that new testimony material to the defendant has been discovered since the trial, shall be governed by the same rules as those which regulate civil suits.

¶2The motion for a new trial, on the ground of newly-discovered evidence, ought always to be supported by the affidavit of the party who makes it, and also by the affida vits of the persons by whom the party expects to prove the facts alleged, as the ground of the application; or, if the affidavits of the persons by whom the party expects to make the proof proposed have not been obtained, the failure to obtain them must be satisfactorily accounted for. Where a motion of the kind under consideration has been thus properly presented, it is for the court to consider whether there has been any want of diligence in obtaining the proposed evidence, and whether it would probably change the result upon a new trial. (Cotton v. The State, 4 Tex., 260; Watts v. Johnson et al., 4 Tex., 811; Steinlein v. Dial, 10 Tex., 268; Scranton v. Tilley, 10 Tex., 183.)

¶3The application for a new trial in the present case was entirely without merit.

¶4The judgment of the court below is

¶5Aeeirmed.

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