State v. Soares

OPINION

By the Court,

Coleman, C. J.:

George Soares, alias George Miller, and Dan Brennan were jointly charged by information with the crime of robbery by means of putting the person robbed in fear, and upon the trial were both convicted. A motion for a new trial was filed in behalf of both, upon the hearing of which a new trial was denied Soares and granted as to Brennan.

From the order denying Soares a new trial, and the judgment, an appeal has been taken.

It is insisted that the court erred in denying the motion, for two reasons: (1) Because the verdict is contrary to the evidence, and (2) upon…