Brindley v. State

THOMAS, J.(1) This cause was submitted on motion to establish a bill of exceptions and on the merits. The record informs us that the case was tried on the 25th day of August, 1914; that the bill of exceptions was indorsed, “Presented,” on November 21, 1914, by Hon. D. W. Speake, the presiding judge; and that Judge Speake died on the 3d day of January, 1915, after failing to sign the same as a bill of exceptions. An agreement was incorporated in the record of the case, signed by the Attorney General of the state of Alabama and the solicitor of the eight judicial circuit of Alabama, *45and by…