DocketNumber: No. 33,168.
Citation Numbers: 7 N.W.2d 408, 214 Minn. 204
Judges: PER CURIAM.
Filed Date: 1/2/1943
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 1/12/2023
"If the court affirms the judgment, it shall direct the sentence pronounced to be executed, and the same shall be executed accordingly. If it reverses such judgment, it shall either direct a new trial, or that the defendant be absolutely discharged, as the case may require."
The remittitur having gone down, we are without jurisdiction to grant the amendment. In State v. Ames,
"The judgment is not technically a compliance with the statute, in that it does not, in express terms, direct a new trial, but the appeal was from a judgment which was reversed on the ground that the verdict and judgment were not sustained by the evidence, and case remanded to the district court. The necessary legal effect of such action was to remand the case for a new trial. It follows that the proposed amendment, even if it were conceded that we had jurisdiction to make it, is unnecessary, and therefore the motion is denied."
Motion denied.