State v. Sayer

Idaho Supreme Court

State v. Sayer

130 P. 158, 23 Idaho 536, 1913 Ida. LEXIS 69

CourtIdaho Supreme Court

DecidedMarch 11, 1913

StatusPublished

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State v. Sayer, 130 P. 158, 23 Idaho 536, 1913 Ida. LEXIS 69 (Idaho 1913).

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AILSHIE, C. J.

— In this case it is insisted by counsel for the appellant that there is absolutely no evidence whatever establishing the guilt of the appellant, and that the jury had before them no evidence upon which to rest a verdict. At the oral argument, the assistant attorney general stated that he had been unable to find any evidence in the record which justified a verdict and judgment of conviction. The attorney general’s office has furnished us with a digest of all the evidence in the ease, and cited us to everything that could be considered as a circumstance or suspicion against [537]*537the defendant. After examining this as well as the transcript of the evidence, we are still left to wonder upon what grounds the jury returned a verdict of guilty. There is certainly no evidence justifying it in this record. In the meanwhile, it appears that defendant has served well-nigh a year in the penitentiary.

The judgment is reversed and the defendant will be discharged.

Sullivan and Stewart, JJ., concur.

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AILSHIE, C. J.

— In this case it is insisted by counsel for the appellant that there is absolutely no evidence whatever establishing the guilt of the appellant, and that the jury had before them no evidence upon which to rest a verdict. At the oral argument, the assistant attorney general stated that he had been unable to find any evidence in the record which justified a verdict and judgment of conviction. The attorney general’s office has furnished us with a digest of all the evidence in the ease, and cited us to everything that could be considered as a circumstance or suspicion against [537]*537the defendant. After examining this as well as the transcript of the evidence, we are still left to wonder upon what grounds the jury returned a verdict of guilty. There is certainly no evidence justifying it in this record. In the meanwhile, it appears that defendant has served well-nigh a year in the penitentiary.

The judgment is reversed and the defendant will be discharged.

Sullivan and Stewart, JJ., concur.

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