State v. Prescott

Defendant was indicted for the murder of Avis Macomber at Newport, Rhode Island, on January 31, 1943 and was convicted by a jury in the superior court for the county of Newport, on March 19, 1943, of murder in the second degree. Thereafter he moved in that court for a new trial, which motion was heard and denied on April 1, 1943. Defendant duly excepted to such denial and prosecuted to this court a bill of exceptions setting out that exception and twenty-three others to rulings of the trial justice admitting and excluding evidence and to several portions of his charge to the jury.

In his brief…