State v. Richardson

BARRETT, Commissioner.

Upon a charge of murder in the second degree, James W. Richardson, age 19, had been found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment. The appellant’s trial counsel timely filed a motion for a new trial setting forth, together with numerous subdivisions, sixteen specifications of error. A large number of these specifications of error are so lacking in detailed particularity or in their failure to set forth the “specific grounds or causes therefor” (S.Ct. Rule 27.20, V.A. M.R.) that they do not present reviewable questions. It is not necessary to again…