State v. Deloney

Supreme Court of Louisiana
State v. Deloney, 149 La. 3 (La. 1921)
88 So. 532; 1921 La. LEXIS 1385
Monroe

State v. Deloney

Opinion of the Court

MONROE, C. J.

Defendant, charged with murder, was convicted of manslaughter, and has appealed. Neither he nor the prosecution has appeared in this court. The transcript discloses proceedings in which the law appears to have been complied with in every particular. The only bill of exception that we find was reserved to the overruling of a motion for new trial, based upon an allegation of newly discovered evidence. The judge appears to have been of the opinion that the-witness named in the motion did not possess the information therein attributed to him, and that, in any event, his testimony would be merely cumulative. The case is one in which we find no sufficient reason to doubt that, in refusing the new trial, he has properly exercised the- discretion which the law-vests in him in such matters. -The conviction and sentence appealed from are therefore

Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
STATE v. DELONEY
Status
Published
Syllabus
(Syllabus by the Court.) Criminal law Unless good reason be shown, this court will not interfere with the exercise by a trial judge of the discretion vested in him in the matter of granting or refusing a new trial in a criminal case upon the ground of newly discovered evidence.