Collins v. State

The plaintiff in error concedes that the evidence adduced upon the trial was sufficient to warrant the verdict finding him guilty; and hence we need only to consider the special grounds of the amendment to' the motion for a new trial. The solicitor-general contends that since the grounds of the amendment to the motion are not specifically approved as true, and as the amendment does not appear to have been filed, the errors therein assigned should not be considered by this court. It has frequently been held that an order upon an amendment to a motion for a new trial, in the following language:…