State v. Haworth
Decision Date | 12 August 1903 |
Docket Number | 1446 |
Citation | 73 P. 413,26 Utah 310 |
Court | Utah Supreme Court |
Parties | THE STATE OF UTAH, Respondent, v. NATHAN F. HAWORTH, Appellant. [1] |
Appeal from the Second District Court, Davis County.--Hon. H. H Rolapp, Judge.
The defendant was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to be shot. On appeal the judgment was affirmed and the case remanded. Afterwards the defendant made a motion for new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. From the order overruling this motion for a new trial, the defendant appealed.
AFFIRMED.
Messrs Weber & Braffet and J. M. Hamilton, Esq., for appellant.
Hon. M A. Breeden, Attorney General, and Hon. W. R. White, Deputy Attorney General, for the State.
-- The defendant after his arrest made a written confession of the murder with which he was charged, and was convicted of murder in the first degree, and sentenced to be shot. On appeal the judgment was affirmed by this court (24 Utah 398, 68 P. 155), and the case remanded for further proceedings in accordance with law. Afterwards the defendant, under the provisions of subdivision 7, section 4952, Revised Statutes 1898, made a motion for a new trial in the court below on the ground of newly discovered evidence. This motion was overruled, and the defendant again appeals. As the sentence of death was affirmed on the former appeal, the only question for our consideration on the present one is whether the denial of the motion was an abuse of judicial discretion.
A large number of affidavits and counter affidavits were introduced upon the motion. Most of the newly discovered evidence relied upon by the defendant, and set out in the affidavits introduced by him, is cumulative, and the balance is impeaching. In the case of the People v. Demasters, 109 Cal. 607, 42 P. 236, the defendant, upon his conviction for an assault with intent to commit mayhem, moved for a new trial under subdivision 7, sec. 1181, Cr. Code Cal., of which subdivision 7, sec. 4952, Revised Statutes Utah 1898, is a literal transcript. In the opinion affirming the order overruling the motion the court said: ...
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