State v. Chirafisi

It is a fundamental requirement of the code of criminal -procedure that trial proceedings, so far as they relate to the evidence, must be brought upon the record by a bill of exceptions duly settled, signed and filed. There is no other way to authenticate them. A mere stenographic report is nothing, has no place on the record, and has no place in a transcript of the record. The result- is that the only question presented for consideration by this appeal is the sufficiency of the information, and it is clearly sufficient.

Because of the gravity of punishment imposed upon the defendant the court…