Hicks v. . Nivens

The appellants group 32 assignments of error. They mention in their brief only two exceptions. Those exceptions noted in the record, but not set out in their brief, are taken as abandoned. Rule 28, Rules of Practice in the Supreme Court, 200 N. C., 811 (831).

The first exception mentioned in the appellants’ brief is the one numbered 25, and is to the court’s refusal to give a special instruction, orally requested by counsel, to the effect that if the jury “believed the evidence of the defendant, and especially the evidence of Chief Fesperman, they would find that the plaintiffs were arrested…