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Golden Gate University School of Law

1957

New Trial

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People V. Sheran, Jesse W. Carter Sep 1957

People V. Sheran, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The trial court had the power to modify a verdict by reducing the class of defendant's crime. Substantial evidence in the record supported the modification, and no inference could be drawn from the evidence contrary to those drawn by the jury.


Carney V. Simmonds, Jesse W. Carter Sep 1957

Carney V. Simmonds, Jesse W. Carter

Jesse Carter Opinions

The motion for a new trial by an administratrix was properly granted because a reasonable construction of her complaint would point to a fraudulent exclusion of the administratrix from the hearing on the application to set aside her son's estate.