State v. Lessing
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Writ of error to tbe district court for Nicollet county, in which court tbe defendant was convicted of murder in the second degree, upon an indictment for murder in tbe first degree, and moved for a new trial, on the minutes of tbe court, which was denied. Tbe case is sufficiently stated in tbe opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
McMillan, J.
This case is brongnt into this court by a writ of error to the court below. The statute provides, that the clerk, upon a writ of error being filed with him, shall transmit to this court a copy of the judgment roll and of the bill of exceptions, if any. Gen. St at., ch. 117, see. 5.
The return in the cause under consideration contains no “case ” or “ bill of exceptions”; the record, therefore, does not show any of the evidence, nor any exceptions taken by the defendant upon the trial, nor does the return show the grounds or proceedings upon which the motion for a new…
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