Bennett v. State

1. Under repeated rulings of the Supreme Court and of this court, a special ground of a motion for a new trial must be complete and understandable within itself; and where, in order to understand the assignment of error in such a ground and to ascertain whether the alleged error, if error, was prejudicial to the defendant’s cause, it is necessary for the reviewing court to refer to some other portion of the record, the ground is too incomplete *805to be considered. In tbe instant case the first special ground of the motion for a new trial is as follows: “Because the court [erred] in admitting in…