FERGUSON v. STATE

22607.

220 Ga. 364 (1964)

138 S.E.2d 881

FERGUSON v. THE STATE.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided October 19, 1964.

Rehearing Denied November 5, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Hugh Leatherwood, Sr., for plaintiff in error.

Dan Winn, Solicitor General, John T. Perren, Assistant Solicitor General, Robert J. Noland, Eugene Cook, Attorney General, Ruby G. Jackson, Assistant Attorney General, contra.


QUILLIAN, Justice.

Billy Ferguson, convicted of murdering Luke A. Brown with a certain pistol, filed an extraordinary motion for new trial alleging the discovery of material evidence subsequent to the trial. The evidence that was the basis of the motion was the testimony of one Harold M. Adams that between 8 and 8:30 on the morning of the homicide, some thirty minutes after the same was committed, he visited the scene of the...

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