Defendant was indicted by the grand jury for the crime of murder in the first degree, tried in the district court for Itasca county before Wright, J., and a jury which found defendant guilty of murder in the second degree. From an order denying his motion to settle a case and for a new trial, defendant appealed.
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Affirmed · Decided 1917-11-16
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Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently December 1963
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¶1The defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree and appeals from the order denying his motion to settle a ease and his motion for a new trial.
¶32. In the absence of a certification under the statute, or a bill of exceptions or settled case, a ruling on a challenge to the grand jury cannot be reviewed; nor without a ease or bill of exceptions can rulings at the trial or the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict be considered. See G. S. 1913, § 9251; 1 Dunnell, Minn. Dig. & 1916 Supp. §§ 342-350, 1368, 1369, 2493, and cases cited. This is the character of the objections-urged by the appellant.
¶4So far as the appeal is directed to the order denying the defendant’s motion to settle a case it is dismissed. So far as the order denies a new trial it is affirmed.