Hightower v. State

1. Where a demurrer to an indictment is overruled, and no exceptions pendente lite are filed, and upon the trial of the case the defendant is convicted, and a motion for a new trial is made and overruled, and a bill of exceptions complaining of these rulings is filed in twenty days from the date of the refusal of a new trial, but not in twenty days from the overruling of the demurrer, the exceptions to the refusal of a new trial can be considered, but the exceptions to the overruling of the demurrer can not. In all criminal cases, before the bill of exceptions can be considered, it should be…