Reid v. State

The opinion of the court was delivered by

The Chancellor.

The entire record of the proceedings-had upon the trial has been returned with the writ of error agreeably to the provisions of the one hundred and sixty-third chapter of the laws of 1894 (Pamph. L., p. 264; Gen. Stat., p. 1154, § 170), which contemplate adjudication whether in that record it appears that the plaintiff in error has suffered manifest wrong and injury by rejection of testimony charge to the jury, denial of any matter within the court's discretion, or upon the evidence adduced upon the trial.

*722It appears that the crime…