Allen v. Pratt

When the judge of the superior court below signed and certified the bill of exceptions assigning error, on the denial by that court of the defendant’s extraordinary motion for a new trial, the Court of Appeals became vested with jurisdiction of the case. The Court of Appeals may compel the trial judge in a proper case to sign and certify a bill of exceptions. The court may entertain the petition for mandamus for that purpose, and deny or overrule or grant it, as is proper under the circumstances and the law. So the Court of Appeals may compel the judge of the superior court in a case of which…