Lewis v. Commonwealth

Citations

• 81 Va. 416
• 1886 Va. LEXIS 108

Syllabus

<p>1. Criminal Proceedings—New Triáis—Buie.—The well-settled rule of this court in granting new trials, when asked for on the sole ground that the verdict is contrary to the evidence, is to grant them very cautiously, and only when the verdict is manifestly wrong, great weight being due to a verdict rendered by a jury and approved by a judge, before whom the witnesses gave their evidence.</p> <p>2. Idem—Case at bar.—A case wherein the verdict of murder in the second degree is held to be warranted by the evidence, and the judgment denying a new trial is held to be right.</p>