Commonwealth v. Patterson

Citations

• 272 Pa. 522
• 116 A. 475
• 1922 Pa. LEXIS 861

Syllabus

<p>Criminal law — Murder—New trial — After-discovered evidence— Discretion of court.</p> <p>1. The Supreme Court will not, in a murder case, reverse the action of the court below in refusing a new trial, except in ease of a manifest abuse of discretion.</p> <p>2. Where the application for a new trial is- based on after-discovered evidence, the refusal of a new trial will be sustained, where it appears that the so-called after-discovered evidence, might have been produced at the trial, that it related to very trivial matters, not vital to the case, and that it should not and probably would not result in a different verdict.</p> <p>Appeals — Assignments of error — Criminal law — Murder—Confession.</p> <p>3. The Supreme Court will not, at the argument of an appeal in a murder case, consider a complaint as to the manner in which a confession was secured, where no error was assigned to the admission of the confession.</p>