Fletcher v. Gillespie

Duckworth, Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) This record shows that Judge Townsend, the regular judge of the circuit, ruled on the demurrers and the motion to strike, certified the exceptions pendente lite to such rulings, presided upon the trial, charged the jury and signed the judgment. Judge Porter of the Rome Circuit, while presiding for Judge Townsend in the-Cherokee Circuit, approved the brief of evidence, the amendment to the motion for new trial, overruled the amended motion for new trial, and certified the present bill of exceptions. The defendant in error filed a motion…