Court Opinion

ID: 3649056
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 06:04:17.497084+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:22:15.319350
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At the March Term, 1933, Durham Superior Court, the defendant in the above entitled cause was tried upon an indictment charging him, and two others, with the murder of one Thaddeus Tilley, which resulted in a conviction and sentence of death. The defendant appealed to the Supreme Court. The judgment was affirmed in an opinion filed 10 January, 1934. S.v. Ferrell, 205 N.C. 640.
At the next succeeding term of Durham Superior Court following affirmance of the judgment on appeal, the defendant lodged a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence under authority of S.v. Casey, 201 N.C. 620, 161 S.E. 81, and S. v. Starnes, 97 N.C. 423,2 S.E. 447. The motion was duly considered and denied.
From this ruling the defendant gave notice of appeal and was allowed to prosecute the same in forma pauperis.
We have held in a number of cases that no appeal lies to this Court from a discretionary determination of an application for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence. S. v. Edwards, 205 N.C. 661; S. v.Riddle and Huffman, 205 N.C. 591; S. v. Lea, 203 N.C. 316,166 S.E. 292; S. v. Shipman, 203 N.C. 325, 166 S.E. 298; S. v. Davis,203 N.C. 327, 166 S.E. 297; S. v. Rhodes, *Page 739 203 N.C. 329, 166 S.E. 299; S. v. Moore, 202 N.C. 841,163 S.E. 700; S. v. Griffin, 202 N.C. 517, 163 S.E. 457; S. v. Cox,202 N.C. 378, 162 S.E. 907; S. v. Lambert, 93 N.C. 618; Crane v. Carswell,204 N.C. 571, 169 S.E. 160; Carson v. Dellinger, 90 N.C. 226; Holmes v.Godwin, 69 N.C. 467; Vest v. Cooper, 68 N.C. 131. Especially is this so in criminal cases where such applications are not originally entertained in the appellate court. S. v. Casey, 201 N.C. 620, 161 S.E. 81.
It also seems that the order allowing the movant, or petitioner, to appeal in forma pauperis was improvidently granted. Powell v. Moore,204 N.C. 654, 169 S.E. 281.
Appeal dismissed.