Koby v. State

• Decision Date: 24 October 1922
• Docket Number: 24,033
• Citation: 136 N.E. 840,193 Ind. 107
• Parties: Koby v. State of Indiana
• Court: Indiana Supreme Court

136 N.E. 840

193 Ind. 107

Koby v. State of Indiana

No. 24,033

Supreme Court of Indiana

October 24, 1922

Rehearing Denied April 17, 1923.

From Marion Criminal Court (52,053); James A. Collins, Judge.

Prosecution by the State of Indiana against Sam Koby. From a judgment of conviction, the defendant appeals.

Affirmed.

Joseph T. Markey, for appellant.

U. S Lesh, Attorney-General, and Mrs. Edward Franklin White Deputy Attorney-General, for the State.

Willoughby J. Ewbank, J., dissents. Townsend, J., absent.

OPINION

Willoughby, J.

The appellant was prosecuted by indictment, which charged him and two others with receiving stolen goods in violation of § 2273 Burns 1914, Acts 1905 p. 584, § 381.

The appellant filed a motion to quash the indictment, which, being overruled, he then waived arraignment and entered a plea of not guilty. Upon this plea he was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury. The court found him guilty and entered a judgment--"that the defendant, Sam Koby, for the offense by him committed, do make his fine to the State of Indiana, in the penal sum of $ 100, and that he be imprisoned in the Indiana Reformatory for a term of not less than one year and not more than fourteen years; that he be disfranchised and rendered incapable of holding any office of profit or trust for a term of one year and that he pay and satisfy all the costs and charges herein."

From this judgment appellant has appealed, and assigns as error: (1) The court erred in overruling appellant's motion to quash the indictment herein; (2) the court erred in overruling appellant's motion for a new trial. Appellant has waived the first error assigned by failing to present it in any manner in his brief. Osburn v. Finkelstein (1920), 189 Ind. 90, 126 N.E. 11.

The only causes alleged in appellant's motion for a new trial are: (1) The judgment of the court was not sustained by sufficient evidence. (2) The judgment of the court was not sustained by any evidence. (3) The judgment of the court is contrary to law. (4) The judgment of the court is contrary to the evidence. (5) The judgment of the court is contrary to the law and the evidence.

Neither of the causes above specified for a new trial challenges the finding of the court and neither of them constitutes a ground for a new trial. § 2158 Burns 1914, Acts 1905 p. 584, § 282; Lytle v. State (1920), 189 Ind. 690, 128 N.E. 836; State, ex rel., v. Davisson (1910), 174 Ind. 705, 93 N.E. 6; Migatz v. Stieglitz (1906), 166 Ind. 361, 77 N.E. 400; Lindsey v. State (1882), 82 Ind. 7.

It appears from appellant's brief under "Points and Authorities" that the appellant now seeks to bring himself within the provisions of subdivision 9, § 2158 Burns 1914, supra, which provides that a new trial shall be granted when the verdict of the jury or the finding of the court is contrary to law, or is not sustained by sufficient evidence; but this question was not presented to the trial court in the motion for a new trial and before appellant can present any question which properly arises under a motion for a new trial to this court, he must first present it to the trial court in a motion in that court for a new trial. Musser v. State (1901) 157 Ind. 423, 61 N.E. 1; Jenkins v. State (1919), 188 Ind. 510, 124 N.E. 748; Pritchard v. State (...