8 Ga. App. 691 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1911
Before closing this opinion we deem it proper to state that we are not to be understood as reflecting either upon the jury that tried this case or upon the judge who presided over the trial and who exercised his discretion in refusing a new trial and in imposing the sentence. What we have said above was said, not so much with the present case in view, as with a class of cases, of which this is merely one, in view. Knowing the trial judge as we do, we strongly suspect that he has made no mistake in imposing the sentence complained of. He knows Pat Brown and the witnesses much better that we do (for we know none of them, except as names in a cold record), and he saw them as living personages. He is an honest man and a good judge; and we do not believe that he would have put harsh punishment on one as to whose guilt there was grave doubt. Judgment affirmed.