132 Me. 102 | Me. | 1933
At the trial, on an indictment for crime, exceptions were saved. After a jury verdict of guilty, sentence was imposed, notwithstanding the exceptions, as the statute requires. R. S., Chap. 146, Sec. 26. The respondent moved the trial court (the Kennebec Superior Court), at a term subsequent to the certification by the Law Court of its rescript overruling the exceptions and awarding judgment for the State (131 Me., 458, 164 A., 198), to vacate, set aside, and declare the conviction and sentence (which is still being served) to be without force and effect.
The motion alleged newly discovered evidence that, in certain of his testimony, the principal witness for the government committed perjury. Consideration of the motion was ruled unauthorized. The correctness of that ruling is the sole subject at issue.
Exception overruled.