Near v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a killing - 6 - caused by vicious blows that caused \a gouge\ in the throat was unjustified by the claimed provocation and was not evidence of sudden killing in the heat of passion
• “It is settled that a motion for a new trial on the ground of misconduct of a juror is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and unless he abuses that discretion, his judgment concludes the matter on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).