State v. Reynolds

The two defendants were convicted and sentenced on a charge of manufacturing liquor for beverage purposes. There are six bills of exception in the record.

The trial was before the judge without a jury. At the conclusion of the state’s case, defendants, without offering any evidence whatever, requested certain special charges which were refused. A motion for a new trial was also denied. These rulings of the trial judge form the basis of defendants’ bills. Attached to the motion for a new trial is a transcript of the testimony.

The sole issue presented by the bills of exception is whether certain…