Ex parte Gwartney

This is a motion, in this court, for-a writ of mandate, to compel the judge of the Harrison Common Pleas Court to sign a bill of exceptions. The affidavit upon which the motion is founded discloses that time was given until the first day of the last August term for the applicant to “file his bill of exceptions;” that it was duly *190prepared and filed, without the signature of the judge, three days before the expiration of the time limited for filing it; that the cause was upon the docket for the second day of the August term, and on ’that day the bill was, for the first time, presented to the…