Court Opinion

ID: 9688624
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 17:58:49.718189+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:18:40.706167
License: Public Domain

BURKE, Judge
(concurring specially).
I concur in the affirmance of the order denying the motion for a new trial in this case. At the time the motion was heard the lost exhibits had been found and there was therefore available to the defendant the opportunity to move for a new trial on the merits.
The only reason for making the loss of • records a ground for a new trial is that such loss would prevent a review upon the merits. To grant a motion, made upon that ground, after the lost records have been discovered and before the time to move for a new trial on the merits had expired, would, in my opinion, verge on the ridiculous.