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Commonwealth v. Houghton

Citations

  • 31 Pa. Super. 528
  • 1906 Pa. Super. LEXIS 250

Syllabus

<p>Appeals — Criminal law — New trial — Discretion.</p> <p>Where on an appeal from a judgment of guilty in a criminal prosecution, no errors are assigned to any rulings on evidence or instructions, and the only assignment is that the court erred in refusing a new trial, the judgment will not be reversed in the absence of manifest abuse of discretion by the trial court in refusing a new trial.</p>

Judges: Beater, Head, Henderson, Morrison, Orbady, Porter, Rice

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