Attaway v. Parker

We can not hold, as a matter of strict law, that the judge erred in declining to certify the bill of exceptions. The truth of the matter is to be derived from the answer of the judge to the mandamus nisi; and in the answer the judge states that the bill of exceptions as presented to him, even after he had required the necessary corrections to be made, contained matter which was wholly immaterial and a statement of facts to which he could not certify, for the reason that he had no knowledge as to what was the truth in relation thereto. If the law required that the bill of exceptions as…