White v. . Jones

The petition of the defendant Jesse Bledsoe, asking us to review and reverse our former decision in the cause, for an assigned error prejudicial to his claims, is not confined tó its proper office of pointing out the ruling wherein the error lies, but undertakes, by a course of reasoning, to show the ruling to be erroneous. The proper time to make the argument is at the bearing, ancl we notice the departure from the simple and brief forms in use, to avoid the inference that this meets our approval, and that it may not become a precedent.

The brief, filed in support of the application,…