Justices of the Inferior Court v. Barrington
Supreme Court of Georgia
In this cause a motion was made to dismiss the writ of error, on the ground that it did not appear that the bill of exceptions was signed and certified within thirty days from the adjournment of the Court. The bill of exceptions specified that the cause was tried at February Term, Baldwin Superior Court, which sits on the 4th Monday in said month. The certificate of the Judge bore date 29th March, 1849.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court.
Nisbet, J.
delivering the opinion.
[1.] By the old law organizing this Court, it was necessary that the plaintiff in error should tender his bill of exceptions, and that the presiding Judge should sign it, within four days after the trial of the cause. 1 Kelly, 6. By the Act of 1847, the Legislature has altered this provision of the first law, and now parties plaintiffs in error may draw up and submit for the signature of the presiding Judge, their bills of exceptions, within thirty days after the close of the term in which the cause was heard. The bill must now be certified and…
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