McCulloch v. Ballentine

Bill Ballentine prayed an appeal from the judgment of the Sebastian circuit court sentencing him to a term of twenty-one years in the penitentiary. The stenographer of the 12th judicial circuit, of which Sebastian county is a part and who had reported the trial, was called upon to transcribe his stenographic notes, to be used in the bill of exceptions required on the appeal. The stenographer refused to do. so unless paid for that service. Thereupon, Ballentine made affidavit conforming to § 2876, Pope’s Digest, which reads as follows: “In all cases no party shall be denied his bill of…