Goffe v. State

1. Even if this court has jurisdiction in any case to entertain an assignment of error upon the refusal of the trial judge to approve the grounds of a motion for new trial, such an'assignment of error can in no event be considered in the absence of a recital in the bill of exceptions, certified to by the trial judge, that the grounds which he refused to approve are true.

2. Whether or not there is any remedy to correct an erroneous refusal, to approve a ground in a motion for a new trial is not decided. The decisions, cited by counsel for the plaintiff in error, in Central R. Co. v. Miller, 91…