State v. Price

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The defendant was convicted of arson and sentenced to hard labour for life. There are four grounds in his assignment of errors;—

1. It does not appear that he was present in court during a considerable part of the trial.

If the prisoner’s counsel has not read the record he should not undertake to i-epresent Mm. If he has read the record he should not have made the above assertion. The record affirmatively shews the presence of the prisoner in court at every stage of the trial both important and unimportant.

2. It does not appear that he was…