Opinion ID: 1851305
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The alleged denial of a contradictory hearing upon the motion for a new trial.

Text: The motion for a new trial was filed in open court and denied the same day, in the presence of the defendant and his counsel. (At that time, they waived the delay for sentencing, and sentence was imposed.) See minute entry at Tr. 5. The motion reiterates the alleged errors committed during the preliminary examination hearing, on the motion to suppress, and at the merit-trial which were the subject of the assignments of error. Their validity did not call for consideration of any evidence outside of the record made during these proceedings. At the time the motion was denied, the defendant did not object to its immediate consideration by the court, nor to the court's immediate disposition of it. Aside from any lack of merit to the contention, the defendant on appeal claims to be error an action of the trial court neither objected to at the time, La.C.Cr.P. art. 841, nor designated by the defendant's assignment of errors, La.C.Cr.P. art. 920. It therefore will not be considered by us. Other assignments of error The defendant does not argue and therefore abandons his other assignments of error, none of which appear to possess merit: assignments 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 11, relating to evidentiary rulings; assignment 10, relating to a comment by the trial court; assignment 12, relating to the closing argument of the prosecutor; and assignments 13 and 14, relating to the instructions to the jury (which, moreover, were not objected to at the trial).