State v. Hogan

Pee Cueiam.

Plaintiff in error was convicted of robbery. He sued out a writ of error, and the entire record of the proceedings had upon the trial was, pursuant to the authority conferred by section 136 of the Criminal Procedure act (2 Comp. Stat., p. 1863), returned with the bill of exceptions. The grounds now urged for reversal, raised both by an assignment of errors and a specification of causes therefor under section 137 of the act referred to (2 Comp. Stat., p. 1866) are: (1) the verdict is contrary to and against the weight of the evidence, and (2) the trial judge committed prejudicial…