State Ex Rel. Yeargin v. Petty

Following a conviction of grand larceny, Yeargin appealed to this court, hut no bill of exceptions was made a part of the record; it appearing that it had not been signed within the time fixed by law by the trial judge. The bill in this case was thereupon filed to set aside the judgment in the circuit court of Maury county and obtain a new trial upon the theory, advanced in the bill, that Yeargin had been deprived of a review of his case in this court on the facts by the failure of the trial judge to sign his hill of exceptions, without fault on his part. The allegation of the hill touching…