Henderson v. State

The purported bill of exceptions in this case is-not signed by either the defendant or his counsel. The Code, § 6-901 provides: “ Such bill of exceptions shall specify plainly the-decision complained of and the alleged error, and shall he signed hy the party or his attorney.” (Italics ours.) Bennett v. Bainbridge Farm Co., 173 Ga. 856 (162 S. E. 134), reads as follows: “A paper purporting to be a bill of exceptions, properly certified by the trial judge, but not signed by the plaintiff in error or his counsel, is not a legal bill of exceptions, confers no jurisdiction of the case upon this…