State v. Beeder
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Oritninal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Batyer, J. 1. vSupreme Court having no jurisdiction in criminal cases to review questions of fact, the evidence, though reduced to writing and made part of the record, will not be examined for the purpose of determining whether it authorized a conviction, or the refusal of a new trial asked for on the ground that it did not. 30 An. 401; 82 An. 526; 38 An. 497. 2. The Supreme Court having appellate…
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APPEAL from the Oritninal District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Batyer, J. 1. vSupreme Court having no jurisdiction in criminal cases to review questions of fact, the evidence, though reduced to writing and made part of the record, will not be examined for the purpose of determining whether it authorized a conviction, or the refusal of a new trial asked for on the ground that it did not. 30 An. 401; 82 An. 526; 38 An. 497. 2. The Supreme Court having appellate jurisdiction on questions of law alone will not revise the refusal of the lower court to grant a motion for a new trial based…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was' delivered by
Nicholls, C. J.
The defendant, Allen Beeder (alias Allen Beedle), having been convicted of murder and sentenced to be hung, appeals from the judgment of the lower court, and relies for reversal upon a motion for a new trial, and a motion in arrest of judgment made in the District Court and overruled.
The first two reasons in the motion for a new trial cover the same ground, that the verdict was contrary to the law and the evidence.
*1010In overruling these two grounds the court assigned as a reason that the evidence established a deliberate and cruel murder…
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