State v. Smith

OPINION

Defendant was indicted and went to trial on the charge of murder in the first degree. The trial judge granted defendant’s motion for judgment of acquittal on the principal offense of murder in the first degree, but submitted the case to the jury on the lesser included offenses of voluntary manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter. The jury found defendant guilty of involuntary manslaughter.

Defendant filed a motion for a new trial on January 1, 1982, within thirty days of the jury verdict. On May 27,1982, the trial judge entered an order that recited that a term and a motion day had…