Long v. State

1: A judgment overruling ademurrer to an indictment can not be made a ground of a motion for anew trial, but exception thereto must be taken either by a bill of exceptions sued out within twenty days from the date of the judgment, or by exceptions pendente lite on which error is assigned in the bill of exceptions.

2. Where in a prosecution for forgery the question of proof of venue is one of the main issues submitted to the jury, and the State shows that the accused resided in the county in which the indictment was found and in a civil proceeding in that county tendered the forged instrument…