Strawbridge v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
This was a motion to establish a bill of exceptions. The motion and affidavits accompanying it show that the petitioner was convicted of betting at a game called keno, and at the same term of the court his attorney presented to the presiding judge of the court the identical bill of exceptions now sought to be established; that the bill of exceptions thus presented “ truly and correctly set forth the facts,” and was in “ every particular correct, and correctly stated the…
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This was a motion to establish a bill of exceptions. The motion and affidavits accompanying it show that the petitioner was convicted of betting at a game called keno, and at the same term of the court his attorney presented to the presiding judge of the court the identical bill of exceptions now sought to be established; that the bill of exceptions thus presented “ truly and correctly set forth the facts,” and was in “ every particular correct, and correctly stated the facts and exceptions as they occurred on the the trial of the cause.” It further appears, that the clerk endorsed on said…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
This is an application to prove a bill of exceptions, on motion in this court, which the presiding judge in the court befow refused ox failed to sign.
*310The statute in such case declares, that “if the judge fail or refuse to sign a bill of exceptions, the point or decision and the facts being truly stated, he is guilty of a high misdemeanor in office, and the supreme court must receive such evidence of the facts as may be deemed by it satisfactory, and proceed to hear the cause as if the bill had been signed by the court.” — Rev. Code, § 2758. The document presented in this court as the bill of…
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