Weaver v. People

The defendant Weaver was tried and convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for life. The assignments relied upon by him for a reversal of the judgment are: Errors of the court in impaneling a jury; in admitting alleged dying declarations of Mr. Brown, the man who was killed; in the instructions; in improperly overruling defendant’s motion for a new trial.

Neither the motion for a new trial nor the instructions, nor the rulings thereon, nor the objections and exceptions of defendant thereto, if any, have been brought to this court by a bill of…