State v. Wilson

The assignments of error based on exceptions to the charge are defective. The appellant should quote in each assignment the part of the charge to which he objects. An assignment based on failure to charge should set out the defendant’s contention as to what the court should have charged. The assignments should present the questions without requiring “a voyage of discovery” through the record.

The requirement that the assignments disclose the matters alleged as error is for the benefit of all members of the Court in their pre-argument examination of the record. After the argument the author, in…