 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1846 - 628 pages
...case is whether such exceptions were taken in the case as gave the circuit court any jurisdiction. A motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and we trust it will some day be held here, as it has been every where else, that for a... | |
 | Thomas Foster Withrow, Edward Holcomb Stiles - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 724 pages
...applying. Cook et ai. v. United States, 1 0. Gr. 56, and cases iu § 2, ante ; £ 195 et seq., post. 94. A motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound...of the court, and should be refused unless a strong and meritorious case is shown. Mülard v. Singer, 2 G. Gr. 144 ; Humphreys v. Jloyt et al., 4 Ibid.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1038 pages
...not arrived at the conclusions herein expressed without misgivings. In courts of the United States a motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and where it appears to the court in a criminal case that harmful results are probable,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 710 pages
...evidence to sustain the decision. In relation to this, it is the well-settled rule of this Court that such motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the Court, and an order granting it will not be disturbed unless it appears that the Court below has... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 968 pages
...the motion thereby waived all exceptions taken on the trial. In many of the states it is still held that a motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court, even when based upon errors of law. Final v. Backus, 18 Mich. 218; Johr v. People,... | |
 | Iowa, Emlin McClain - Law - 1884 - 940 pages
...8. Error of law occuring at the trial, excepted to by the party making the application. IN GENERAL : A motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and such discretion will not be interfered wiih, unless it is manifest that it has been... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1884 - 740 pages
...evidence to sustain the decision. In relation to this, it is the well-settled rule of this court that such motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, and an order granting it will not be disturbed unless it appears that the court below has... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 1134 pages
...that the court did not abuse its discretion in granting said motion. As has been said by this court, motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the court, who is acquainted with all the circumstances surrounding the case, and, unless it is manifest... | |
 | Oregon. Supreme Court, William Wallace Thayer, Joseph Gardner Wilson, Thomas Benton Odeneal, Julius Augustus Stratton, William Henry Holmes, Reuben S. Strahan, George Henry Burnett, Robert Graves Morrow, James W. Crawford, Frank A. Turner, Bellinger, Charles Byron - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 612 pages
...motion for a new trial. There are cases in which it has been Opinion of the Court — Lord, J. held that a motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the court below, and that the overruling of such a motion will not be reviewed unless there is a plain... | |
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A motion for a new trial is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial court. 
