6 Ga. App. 502 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1909
We know that it was not the intention of the learned trial judge to express or even intimate an opinion upon the evidence in the present case, but it is not within the province of the court to say under what circumstances the testimony of a witness is necessarily entitled to greater credit. The credibility of the witnesses, regardless of the circumstances, is for the jury. All the judge can properly do is to call the attention of the jury to the circumstances which may be considered by them in weighing the testimony of any particular witness. What we here rule is not in conflict with the decision in Jackson v. State, 132 Ga. 547 (64 S. E. 653). The language used in the judge’s charge in that case is very simi