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PATTERSON v. STATE

17698.

208 Ga. 689 (1952)

69 S.E.2d 84

PATTERSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided January 29, 1952.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. C. Felton III, for plaintiff in error.

Eugene Cook, Attorney-General, Wingate Dykes, Solicitor-General, and R. L. Addleton, Assistant Attorney-General, contra.

HAWKINS, Justice.

1. Extraordinary motions for new trial based on newly discovered evidence are not favored by the law. Where, as in this case, the accused has been convicted, a new trial denied him, and that judgment has been affirmed (Patterson v. (State,) 206 Ga. 260, 56 S.E.2d 501, 339 U.S. 916, 70 Sup. Ct. 563, 94 L. ed. 1341), an extraordinary motion for new trial on the ground...

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