State v. Shea

After indictment, trial and verdict of guilty of the crime of assault and battery respondent brings his case to this court, on an exception to the admission of evidence, and on motion to have the verdict set aside on the ground of newly discovered evidence, with record of the same.

The assault is alleged to have been committed on May 19, 1931. Trial was had at the September term of that year.

The record shows that the complaining witness, hereinafter called the complainant, was a blacksmith, doing business in a shop off Oak Street in the city of Ellsworth; that he worked for a while in the…