State v. Parker

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a motion for a new trial after a witness, who initially declared his trial testimony to be untrue, subsequently signed an affidavit recanting his recantation
• stating the credibility of the newly-discovered evidence is a matter for the determination of the trial judge and his judgment will not be disturbed absent an error of law or an abuse of discretion
• “It is a fixed rule that the credibility of newly-discovered evidence offered in support of a motion for a new trial is a matter for determination by the [trial court] . . . [the trial court] not this court [has] the power to weigh such evidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

2 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Spann
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1999-02-16· cited 31×
• State v. DeAngelis
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1971-07-08· cited 7×

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Whitener
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1955-02-08· cited 46×
• State v. Mayfield
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1959-07-20· cited 39×
• State v. Corn
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1953-09-10· cited 8×