State v. . Gooch

The facts averred and set out in the petition, with the several accompanying affidavits to sustain the application for the remedial writ of certiorari, to be issued with a view to the reconsideration and correction of the case, embodying the prisoners exceptions, and transmitted with the transcript of the record of appeal, relate to the manner in which it was made up, and are substantially these: The prisoners counsel prepared their case on appeal, and caused a copy to be delivered to the Solicitor, who drew up and filed in the Clerk’s office, a substitute, to cover his exceptions. Thereupon,…