Court Opinion

ID: 8024980
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-09 02:33:43.23691+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:36:47.528344
License: Public Domain

MR. JUSTICE ANGSTMAN:
Defendant was convicted of tbe crime of committing lewd and lascivious acts upon a minor child. His motion for new trial was denied after this court ruled that a motion for new trial could be filed and heard under recanting testimony developed after the trial. State v. Nicks, 131 Mont. 567, 312 Pac. (2d) 519. He has appealed from the order denying the motion.
Since this court has remanded the cause for retrial upon other grounds in an opinion this day filed, 332 Pac. (2d) 904, the propriety of the ruling on the motion for new trial because of the recanting testimony becomes immaterial and this appeal is accordingly dismissed.
MR. JUSTICES ADAIR and BOTTOMLY, concur.
*600MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON, did not participate in this opinion.
MR. JUSTICE CASTLES, dissents.