Newsome v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction in District Court of Upshur County of selling intoxicating liquor; punishment two years in the penitentiary.

It is to be regretted that under the change made by the 1925 Code of Criminal Procedure which went into effect September 1st of that year, the time within which bills of exception may be filed was changed from ninety days from the adjournment of the trial term of the court below, to ninety days from the giving notice of appeal. In the case before us the bills of exceptions were filed 102 days after the giving of the notice of appeal. We have no option but to…