Sturdivant v. Watkins

There is nothing saved in the bill of exceptions in this case which would authorize us to review the judgment of the court below. Neither the rulings of the court excepted to nor the instructions are incorporated into the bill, so as to become a part of the record. Certain instructions are copied in the transcript with the marginal words “given” and “not given,” but what action the court took in reference to them is not stated by anything appearing in the bill of exceptions. “Instructions should regularly be incorporated in the bill of exceptions.. Although they may appear among the papers in…