Fountain v. Crum

Peb Curiam.

The Court of Appeals lias certified tlie following question to this court: “Has the Court of Appeals jurisdiction to grant a petition for mandamus to compel the trial judge to assess the amount of a supersedeas bond in a criminal case, where the defendant, under an indictment for murder, was convicted of voluntary manslaughter, and sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary, and where a motion for a new trial was duly filed and overruled, to the overruling of which a bill of exceptions to the Court of Appeals was certified and filed?”

This question is answered in the negative. A…