 | 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 - 1873 - 616 pages
...error of the court in refusing to instruct the jury as asked by the defendants; third, because the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and evidence and not supported by the evidence." The first cause for a new trial is insufficient, because it does not... | |
 | Louisiana. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1879 - 764 pages
...years' confinement in the penitentiary, he prosecutes this appeal. A new trial was moved for tho reason that " the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and the evidence, and in conflict with justice, humanity, and common sense." The issue was, did the prisoner... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 1164 pages
...enabling us to proceed with the discussion of the case. The first assignment of error is a general one, that the verdict of the Jury is contrary to the law and evidence, and that the evidence is wholly insullicient to support the verdict. In tbe argument of this proposition,... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1919 - 1026 pages
...erred in overruling motion to set aside the information. "The giving of instruction Nos. 3, 7, and 9. "That the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and the evidence" — which motion was overruled, and exceptions saved. [1-3] We have carefully reviewed... | |
 | California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 844 pages
...OaL 30, approved in The People v. Nichol, 34 id. 211. 8. The next and last assignment of error is, that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and the evidence. We 436 PEOPLE v. HUNT. [Oct 1881. have examined the instructions and the objections made... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1887 - 1076 pages
...one should be allowed in this manner to take advantage of his own wrong. It is also assigned as error that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and evidence, because the evidence showed that the train stopped at Long Lake a sufficient length of time for defendant... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1908 - 1366 pages
...two rears' confinement In the penitentiary. Appellant's amended motion for a new trial insists the verdict of the Jury is contrary to the law and evidence, and that the market value of the property alleged to have been stolen was not proved. The verdict of the... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 1250 pages
...embezzlement of a certain horse. The conviction was upon the latter count. Appellant's first complaint Is that the verdict of the jury Is contrary to the law and thfi evidence. The state's evidence, in substance, shows that the horse was delivered by prosecuting... | |
 | Virginia. Supreme Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 1110 pages
...upon the said verdict for the said damages and costs against the defendant company. We are of opinion that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and the evidence in the case, and that the circuit court erred in refusing to set it aside, on the motion... | |
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Their motion is grounded on the claim that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and evidence... 
