State v. Cornell

The defendant, Cornell, was charged by information filed in the superior court for Chelan county with the offense of unlawfully having in his possession a narcotic drug, which drug had been unlawfully acquired by him in Chelan county. Trial in the superior court, sitting with a jury, resulted in a verdict finding Cornell guilty as charged. His counsel then moved for a new trial upon the ground, among others, of “insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict.” This motion was, by the court, granted, and an order entered accordingly, awarding Cornell a new trial, and specifically…