Dunn v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted in the criminal court of Davidson county for the violation of the age of consent law, and sentenced to five years’ confinement in the State penitentiary. He appealed to this court, and has here assigned errors. A11 of the errors assigned are based upon a writing attached to the record, relied upon by plaintiff in error and his counsel as a bill of exceptions.

The paper referred to, however, cannot be treated as a bill of exceptions, because it was not filed until after the adjournment of the term of court at which he was tried and convicted; no time having…