 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1876 - 650 pages
...court The errors assigned as the foundation for a motion for a new trial are substantially as follows : 1. That the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence. 2. That the court erroneously gave the instructions asked to be given by the state, and refused to give those... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1858 - 740 pages
...it is stated, we are constrained to dissent from the conclusion, to which the learned counsel comes, that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the facts of the case. There was, to say the least of it, ample testimony to justify the ftnding. Indeed,... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1864 - 604 pages
...must stand or fall with the decision of the court on that branch of the subject. The fourth error is, that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law, and not warranted by the evidence in the case. This brings up the question of due diligence on the part... | |
 | Indiana. Supreme Court, Horace E. Carter, Albert Gallatin Porter, Gordon Tanner, Benjamin Harrison, Michael Crawford Kerr, James Buckley Black, Augustus Newton Martin, Francis Marion Dice, John Worth Kern, John Lewis Griffiths, Sidney Romelee Moon, Charles Frederick Remy - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 624 pages
...with a copy of Bishop's Criminal Law, after they load retired to deliberate upon their verdict. 3. That the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence. The first and second causes were sworn to by the appellant, and the second was supported... | |
 | West Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1871 - 834 pages
...was a verdict for the defendant, and the plaintiff moved the court for a new trial, upon the ground that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence, which motion the court overruled and entered judgment upon the verdict for the defenJan'y... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1878 - 1044 pages
...plaintiff in error to the judgment of the court overruling the motion for a new trial, made upon the ground that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence. The bill sets out the facts certified as proved on the trial, and those facts seem sufficient... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1920 - 1148 pages
...the petition in error, but only the following are assigned and argued In the defendant's brief, viz.: "(1) That the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and evidence. "(2) That the court erred in not permitting the defendant to prove on cross-examination of... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1910 - 1150 pages
...new trial ; that the court erred In overruling plaintiff in error's motion in arrest of judgment ; that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law ; and that the verdict was contrary to the evidence! We hare examined the evidence, and find it conflicting.... | |
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... that the verdict of the jury was contrary to the law and the evidence, and that "he was framed and railroaded into this situation. 
