Crofoot v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Motion by A. II. Wilkinson and Gf. V. W. Lothrop to dismiss the bill of exceptions because not settled until after the expiration of the term at which the trial took place.
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley -Oh. J.
We are all -agreed that this motion must be denied. For myself, I have grave doubts, if the statute respecting exceptions in criminal cases was designed to establish any different practice in regard to the settlement of exceptions, from that which is prescribed for civil cases. The statute speaks of the exceptions being reduced to writing-in a summary mode, and presented to the Judge before the end of the term. (Comp. L. %6,088). These terms are proper and apt terms to apply to the taking of exceptions pre*255paratory to incorporating them in a formal hill; hut they are not proper…
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