Wilson v. State

The Clerk, in certifying this transcript under date of January 19, 1954, recites that “the bill of exceptions was filed in my office on September 11, 1953 ’ ’. The brief of the Attorney General calls attention to the fact that it does not appear anywhere on the bill of exceptions that it was ever filed in the clerk’s office.

The aforementioned certificate of. the Clerk is insufficient to overcome this fatal defect. Bundren v. State, 109 Tenn. 225, 228, 230, 70 S. W. 368; Cronan v. State, 113 Tenn. 539, 542, 82 S. W. 477; Burkett v. Buskett, 193 Tenn. 165, 168, 245 S. W. (2d) 185. Hence, we are…