| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 738 pages
...prison, and in the absence of his counsel, and there was no error in this. II. The second ground assigned in the motion for a new trial is, that the court erred in compelling the appellant to go to trial without his having been served in accordance with law with... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 764 pages
...whether a contract had been proven under the special count, etc., to the jury. 3. A further ground of the motion for a new trial, is that the Court erred in refusing instructions moved by the appellant. It seems that he asked eight instructions. The bill of... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1859 - 738 pages
...behalf upon the trial, and that he was defended by an ample array of counsel. 3. The third ground of the motion for a new trial is, that the Court erred in admitting parol evidence of the dying declarations of Griffin, when his dying declarations were proved... | |
| Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1873 - 782 pages
...the crime." These declarations of Edwards were properly excluded from the testimony. The third cause for a new trial is, that the court erred in instructing the jury that, " The burden of proving coercion, threats or commands devolves upon the defendant, and the... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1890 - 912 pages
...set out therein, which motion was overruled by the court, and he excepted. 1. One of the points made in the motion for a new trial is, that the court erred in overruling the demurrers to the declaration. We have repeatedly decided that the overruling of the... | |
| Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1889 - 936 pages
...touching the sanity or insanity of the witness,-to the jury for them to deal with. 5. Another ground of the motion for a new trial is, that the court erred in charging that " ordinary care and diligence is that care and diligence which a sensible, prudent man... | |
| Boyd Crumrine - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 624 pages
...judgment was all a sham, intended only to enable them to get time." The eighth reason now assigned for a new trial, is, that the Court erred in instructing the jury to lay out of their consideration the testimony of Ryan, unless they were satisfied that the statement... | |
| Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1872 - 598 pages
...the same deed must be rejected as evidence of title. 7 Ohio, pt. 1, p. 53. The second reason assigned for a new trial is, that the court erred in instructing the jury, that an actual exclusive possession of land by the defendants, under claim of title, for twent}'... | |
| Robert Dewey Benedict, Benjamin Lincoln Benedict - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 644 pages
...was fifteen cents per pound. The United States v. A Quantity of Tobacco, <tc. The sixth ground urged for a new trial is, that the Court erred " in instructing the jury that it was illegal for the claimant to return for tax the Orinoco tobacco in the bill of exceptions... | |
| Utah. Supreme Court, Albert Hagan, John Augustine Marshall, John Maxcy Zane, James A. Williams, Joseph M. Tanner, George L. Nye, John Walcott Thompson, August B. Edler, Alonzo Blair Irvine, Harmel L. Pratt, William S. Dalton, H. Arnold Rich - Law reports, digests, etc - 1894 - 588 pages
...on the following morning the witnesses all differ. Their testimony is conflicting and contradictory. One of the grounds set out in the motion for a new trial was the insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. It does not appear on what ground the... | |
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