People v. Seidenshner

Goff, J.:

Within a few hours, excluding the intervening Sunday, of the sentence of death being executed upon the defendants, they make application for a new trial. This application was, in ordinary observance of the rules, referred to me by the justice of this court before whom it was made. Such reference was made because the law requires that a motion for a new trial must be made before the justice who presided at the trial. Were it possible, in the sense of judicial propriety, for me to avoid hearing the application I would have done so, to the end that a stranger mind would be employed and…