McDonald v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellant was convicted of uttering a forged check and was sentenced to imprisonment for five years and a day.

Most of the points argued in the brief by the appellant’s present court-appointed counsel, who did not try the case, are not properly before us, because they were not raised until their inclusion in the motion for a new trial. “Before an alleged error in a felony case of a degree less than capital may be considered by this court, there must be an objection calling for a ruling by the trial court, an exception to an adverse ruling, the matter brought into…