Court Opinion

ID: 9537439
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Date Created: 2023-08-07 07:18:23.887356+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:56:40.966272
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BISTLINE, Justice,
specially concurring.
In a similar situation, although it involved a criminal case, Justice Ailshie concurred in sustaining an order granting a new trial on the grounds of insufficiency of evidence:
“It is true there is a conflict in the evidence, and it was perhaps not an abuse of the discretion vested in the trial court in such cases to grant a new trial if he believed that material evidence introduced on the part of the state was false or that an injustice had been done the defendant by reason of false statements made by witnesses or misapprehension of facts by the jury.
“Since the trial court has assigned no specific reason why he granted a new trial, it is as fair to presume that he
granted it for this latter reason as for any other.” State v. Driskell, 12 Idaho 245, 249, 85 P. 499, 501 (1906) (Ailshie, J., concurring).