State v. Collins

NICHOLS, Justice.

Following a jury trial in Superior Court in Somerset County the Defendant, Merwin Collins III, was adjudged guilty of burglary (17-A M.R.S.A. § 401). He thereafter filed a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence, pursuant to M.R.Crim.P. 33, asserting that the recantation of trial testimony subsequent to trial and conviction by a key witness called by the State entitled him to a new trial. The Superior Court denied that motion and the Defendant appealed.

We affirm the Superior Court’s decision.

At the jury trial, on May 30, 1979, Ross Workman testified…