Rhinehart v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore City. Exception. — The appellant was indicted for an assault with intent to murder one Patrick Winn. The State offered evidence tending to prove that the appellant committed, without any provocation, a violent assault upon Patrick Winn, and cut him with a knife upon the head and face.
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore City. Exception. — The appellant was indicted for an assault with intent to murder one Patrick Winn. The State offered evidence tending to prove that the appellant committed, without any provocation, a violent assault upon Patrick Winn, and cut him with a knife upon the head and face. The appellant, -on his part, offered evidence tending to prove that Patrick Winn, followed hy a crowd, approached the appellant, struck him with his fist a violent blow on the neck, and knocked him down ; that while the appellant was down and Winn on top heating him,…
1Opinion of the CourtGrason, J.
The appeal in this case must be dismissed upon two grounds:
First. — The Act of 1872, ch. 316, allows bills of exceptions in criminal cases in the manner and to the same extent as they are allowed in civil cases; but to enable this Court to entertain a bill of exceptions', it must he both signed and sealed by the Judges who made the rulings *456which are excepted to. The hill of exceptions in this case, though signed, is without the seal of the Judge of the Criminal Court of-Baltimore City, and is therefore as of little avail as if it were also without the signature of that Judge.
(Decided 21st…
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