Barnard v. Commonwealth

E. S. Barnard was indicted for the murder of Dr. Herman Poff, and upon his trial was convicted of murder in the second degree.

*616It is insisted for the Commonwealth that the judgment must be affirmed because there are no proper bills of exception. These bills are subject to criticism, for unquestionably the better practice is for the trial judge so to identify the evidence and the instructions to which the bills relate as to make it impossible to question such identification.

In this case the evidence is stated by the trial judge to be “here filed and identified by the stamp thereon, ‘Archie P.…