Pippin v. State

E. M. Pippin was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and made a motion in arrest of judgment, upon the ground that there is “no legal verdict against him upon which a judgment can be entered.” On motion of the solicitor-general the motion to arrest the judgment was dismissed as being “legally insufficient,” and the defendant excepted.

This court certified to the Supreme Court the following question: “Under the peculiar and particular facts of this case, what constitutes the ‘record’ which this court can consider in passing upon the question whether the motion in arrest of judgment was…