People v. Gorman

The only exception taken by the defendant upon the trial was to a denial of his motion, made after the people had rested, to take the case from the jury, on the ground that there was not “enough evidence to go to them.” After a careful reading of the record, we are satisfied that this motion was properly denied by the court. But as section 527 of the Code of Criminal Procedure vests in the supreme court the power and duty to order a new trial, “if it be satisfied that the verdict against the prisoner was against the weight of evidence or against law, or that justice requires a new trial,…