3 Ga. App. 509 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1908
The defendant (now plaintiff in error) was convicted of misdemeanor. There was a total variance in the testimony for the State and that in behalf of the defendant. There was evidence which would have fully authorized the jury to acquit the defendant. Other evidence fully warranted the verdict of guilty, which was rendered. In this state of the case, there is nothing for this court to review. The jury simply exercised their right of preference in determining which were the more credible witnesses. It is a case "of conflicting testimony, and there is no arbiter to decide the conflict except the jury.' We have so-often stated that this court is without jurisdiction to determine issues of fact that it seems unnecessary to even refer to the subject.
2. In the brief of the evidence approved by the trial judge there appear certain questions asked by the judge, and the answers thereto. Complaint is made in the brief of the plaintiff in error that the judge violated the spirit of §4334 of the Civil Code, and the decision of this court in the case of Rouse v. State, 2 Ga. App. 184 (58 S. E. 416), and other decisions, by intimating his opinion, by means of questions which disparaged the defendant’s witnesses and tended to prejudice the jury against their testimony. There is no assignment of error presented by the mere incorporation of these questions and the answers thereto in the brief of the evidence. For this court to consider whether the language used by the court in propounding the questions quoted in the brief, a. speoial exception should have been taken thereto, and a distinct.
