State v. . Absher

The prime purpose of appellate review is to discover _ and correct prejudicial error. Often its correction necessitates a new trial; but it is not mandatory on the appellate court to treat separately 94 exceptions to the trial, all, allegedly, involving as many fatal errors, or to furnish a complete pattern for a new trial. Out of the objections to the conduct of the trial, a few of which may be meritorious, and a great many no doubt taken as an anchor to windward, we consider two, more deeply based and at the same time more prominently thrown up from the melange of the legal battle.

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