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· 4/1/1890

Jackson v. Torrence

Citations

  • 83 Cal. 521
  • 23 P. 695
  • 1890 Cal. LEXIS 720

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the defendants could have obtained a missing page in a report given to them by the State through reasonable diligence when they were on notice that the report was missing a page
  • “While the first grant of a new trial on the general grounds is reviewed for abuse of discretion (see OCGA § 5-5-50), we review de novo the trial court’s first grant of a new trial on a special ground involving a question of law.”
  • The Court reversed the grant of a new trial on the only ground that the trial court had ruled upon, reinstated the defendants’ convictions, and remanded the case to the trial court for a ruling on the remaining grounds set forth in the defendants’ motions for new trial.

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Judges: Beatty

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