Briggs v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was convicted of embezzlement and fined §2,000. To review that judgment he brings error and asks that the writ be made a supersedeas. The cause is now before us on that application.

Defendant? first contends that as he moved for a directed verdict at the close of the people’s case on the ground of insufficient evidence, he is now entitled to have the trial court’s adverse ruling on that motion reviewed on the record as it then stood. He is mistaken. He could only so confine the review by standing on his motion. Otherwise the correctness…