State v. Gargano

The first reason of appeal alleges that the court erred in denying the defendant’s motion to set aside the verdict. The defendant claims that under the evidence the jury could not reasonably have found that, the guilt of the accused was proved beyond a reasonable doubt.

We have held repeatedly that a verdict should Jbe set aside “‘only when manifest injustice has been done by the verdict, and the. wrong is so plain and palpable as clearly to denote that some mistake was made by the jury in the application of legal principles, or as to justify the suspicion that they, or some of them, were…