State v. Stinson

Defendant, upon conviction, was sentenced to pay a fine of $301 for maliciously and wan tonly injuring and defacing a church building. The record contains nine bills of exception, but they are of no value to defendant, even if they possessed merit, which they do not, for the reason that defendant has not placed himself in position to obtain relief by filing and pressing a motion for a new trial in the district court. This is defendant’s situation, because article 559 of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides that:

“No new trial can be granted on appeal unless a motion for same has been made…