State v. Ferris, s. 83-421
| Decision Date | 24 February 1984 |
| Docket Number | Nos. 83-421,83-422,s. 83-421 |
| Citation | 216 Neb. 606,344 N.W.2d 668 |
| Parties | STATE of Nebraska, Appellee, v. Norma FERRIS, Appellant. STATE of Nebraska, Appellee, v. Daniel FERRIS, Appellant. |
| Court | Nebraska Supreme Court |
Syllabus by the Court
Motions for New Trial: Evidence. Where a motion for new trial is based on newly discovered evidence, the rule is well established that the newly discovered evidence must be of such a nature that, if offered and admitted at the former trial, it probably would have produced a substantial difference in the result.
Barlow, Johnson, DeMars & Flodman, Lincoln, for appellants.
Paul L. Douglas, Atty. Gen., and Marilyn B. Hutchinson, Lincoln, for appellee.
These are appeals from the decisions of the district court for Lancaster County denying the appellants' motions for new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. Neb.Rev.Stat. § 29-2101 (Reissue 1979).
This is the second appearance of these cases in this court. The opinion affirming the judgments of conviction is found in State v. Ferris, 212 Neb. 835, 326 N.W.2d 185 (1982). The facts are contained in that opinion and will not be repeated here.
We conclude this court has no jurisdiction in this matter. Neb.Rev.Stat. § 24-541.06 (Cum.Supp.1982) provides that, with certain exceptions not material here, the district court reviews appeals from the county court for error appearing on the record made in the county court. Consequently, a motion for new trial based on newly discovered evidence is to be presented to the county court as the fact finder, not to the district court which sat as an appellate court.
We point out that in any event the appellants' position is without merit. The newly discovered evidence is the taped statement of a sister of the victim, who is alienated from the victim due to a family dispute. The sister, at the hearings on the motions for new trial, professed not to remember the details of a taped statement given to an investigator for the appellants, the details of the trial itself, and few of the details concerning the entire incident.
The taped statement given to the investigator 13 months after the trial purports to give the details of a telephone conversation between the victim and the sister, in which the victim informed the sister of a plan to secure repayment of money from the appellants by the filing of false charges of assault.
The testimony of the sister's husband denies any knowledge of the tape on which his voice appears, and denies any recollection of the contents of the tape.
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