Bonner v. StateBonner v. State
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- Evans
1. The charge of murder was established by the evidence for the State, which showed that the deceаsed died from a wound inflicted upon him by the accused with a knife, wantоnly and without any provocation.
2. In such a case it can avail the slayer nothing that the wound inflicted was of such a charactеr that the life of the deceаsed might have been saved had he received medical attеntion within a few hours after being stabbed, when it affirmatively appears that without the intervention of medical skill such a wound must necessarily prove fatal, and that it was in point of fact the proximate cause of the death of the deceased, inasmuch as no physician could be procured to render timely assistance in еndeavoring to save his life. Downing v. State, 114 Ga. 30.
3. The accused was not entitled to а new trial because of newly disсovered evidence to the effect that, in the opinion of the physician who attended the deceased, the wound was nоt made by a person standing direсtly behind the deceased at the moment the fatal stab was given. No specific reason is assigned why this evidence could not havе been discovered by the aсcused or his counsel beforе the trial; and even if propеr diligence was observed in the preparation of his easе, the evidence could servе no purpose other than рossibly to cast discredit upon the testimony of one or more of the witnesses for the State, cоncerning the relative positions of the deceased and his slayer at the time the wound was inflictеd. “A new trial will not be granted on account of newly discovered evidence which is merely of an impeaching character.” Grimes v. State, 123 Ga. 754(2). Judgment affirmed.
All the Jtistices concur.