State v. Lewis

Defendant was convicted of murder and appealed. He presents two bills of exception. Bill No. 1 was reserved to the ruling of the court refusing a new trial. The only ground set up in the motion for new trial is that the verdict rendered by the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence. The judge, in his per curiam to this bill, said: “The mo-' tion presents only a question of fact. The court overruled it because in the opinion of the court, the verdict was not contrary to the law and the evidence.”

Motions for new trials in criminal cases based solely upon the allegation that the verdict…