Case Name: STATE v. PECARINO
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1911-03-27
Citations: 128 La. 269
Docket Number: No. 18,686
Parties: STATE v. PECARINO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 128
Pages: 269–269

Head Matter:
(54 South. 794.)
No. 18,686.
STATE v. PECARINO.
(March 27, 1911.)
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Criminal Law (§§ 938, 958*) — New Trial— Newly Discovered Evidence.
A motion for a new trial is properly refused, when based on evidence that could have been produced at the trial by the exercise of due diligence, or on mere negative evidence that would not probably have affected the result, or on the affidavit of the accused, not corroborated by that of alleged newly discovered witnesses.
[Ed. Note. — Eor other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2306-2317, 2396-2403; Dec. Dig. §§ 938, 958.*]
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Winston Over-ton, Judge.
Vito Peearino was convicted of selling intoxicating liquors, and appeals.
Affirmed.
John B. Kent, for appellant. Walter Guión, A tty. Gen., and Joseph Moore, Dist. Atty. (G. A. Gondran, of counsel), for the State.

Opinion:
LAND, J.
The accused appeals from a conviction and sentence for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors in the prohibition parish of Calcasieu, and assigns as error the overruling of his motion for a new trial.
The court overruled said motion because the verdict was according to the law and the evidence, and for the further reason that the alleged newly discovered evidence was negative in its character, and some of it could have been produced on the trial of the cause.
The bill of exception does not set forth the evidence adduced on the trial, and we are therefore unable to say'that the alleged newly discovered evidence would have affected the result. The affidavit of the accused was not corroborated by that of any of the alleged newly discovered witnesses.
It is therefore ordered that the sentence below be affirmed. .