Territory v. Peter

OPINION OP THE COURT BY

WATSON, J.

The defendant having been tried, convicted and sentenced on a charge of keeping a house of ill fame under section 3162 of the Revised Laws, brings the case here on exceptions. The bill of exceptions as transmitted to this court is hardly intelligible by reason of the many interlineations, substitutions and amendments endorsed thereon in ink by the trial judge in settling and allowing the same.

Exception 1 relates to certain remarks of the trial judge in the presence of the jury and directed to the attorney for defendant and one H. C. Mossman, a district court…