Clyde v. State

Carlisle, Judge.

The trial judge’s certificate to the bill of exceptions does not unqualifiedly approve the bill of exceptions as being true, but undertakes to enumerate the particulars in which the judge contends it is untrue. Construed in a light most favorable to the plaintiff in error, it at most amounts to a certificate approving the bill of exceptions as being in part true and in part untrue.' Such a certificate “is absolutely void and in legal potency and effect in the creation of a writ of error amounts to no more than a refusal by the judge to affix his name to the certificate which…