United States v. Holmes
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
This was an indictment [against John A. Holmes] for murder upon the high seas, and came before the court upon a motion for new trial. The grounds of the motion are sufficiently set forth in the opinion.
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This was an indictment [against John A. Holmes] for murder upon the high seas, and came before the court upon a motion for new trial. The grounds of the motion are sufficiently set forth in the opinion. It appeared from the testimony, that on the 12th of May, 1857, the American ship Therese, oí whieii the accused was master, sailed from New York to Valparaiso, thence to Callao, thence to the Chincha Islands, and then back to Callao, at whiek place and time George Y\. Chadwick, the person alleged to have been murdered, shipped as a mariner on hoard the vessel for the homeward voyage to Hampton…
1Opinion of the Court
CLIFFORD, Circuit Justice.
Motions for new trials in the federal courts are not always exhibited to the court for verification before they are filed. Usually they are prepared by the party objecting to the verdict, within the time prescribed by the twenty-sixth rule, and not unfrequently are filed with the clerk of the court without any examination by the opposite side, where they sometimes remain upon the files until the argument, without any revision whatever. Drawn from the minutes of. the counsel or from recollection, it not unfrequently happens that they require some correction in order…
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