State v. Duncan

The defendant, Abraham Duncan, hairing been convicted of horse stealing, and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor, has appealed from the judgment of the District Court. The alleged errors which he seeks to have corrected in this court, are setforjthin several bills of exceptions which accompany the record, and in an assignment of errors submitted by his counsel.

The first ground of complaint is, that the judge refused to cause the evidence adduced upon the trial to be taken down in writing by the clerk. We are aware of no law which requires the testimony to be reduced to writing in criminal…