State v. Smith

The defendant took 19 exceptions during the course of the trial, but in his brief abandons all of them except four. Two of these relate to the same subject matter and may be considered together. The other two are to the refusal of the judge to set aside the verdict of the jury and to the rendering and signing of the judgment, and may be ■considered formal or, rather, fully discussed under the other exceptions.

Defendant claims that the court committed error in admitting in evidence the testimony of Sheriff Tart to the effect .that, the defendant having asserted that he spent the time before…