State v. Bell

Defendant appeals from a conviction and sentence of death for murder. We find two bills of exception in the record, to wit:(1) Reserved to the overruEng of the motion for a new trial.(2) Reserved to certain remarks or statements by the district attorney in his closing argument to the jury.

[1] The brief of defendant’s counsel also directs attention to certain rulings by the trial court in caEing tales jurors, but those matters are not brought up on formal bills of exception, and, unless they disclose fatal error on the face of the record, we, of course, cannot consider them. State v. Toups,…