Barrows v. Keene

Dundee, O. J.

This is a petition by the defendant for a new trial on account of erroneous instructions. The petition is imperfectly drawn, since it contains no statement of the evidence, or of the purport of the evidence, upon the points under question, but simply reports a part of the charge of the court, and the requests to charge, with exceptions to said parts of the charge and to refusals to charge as requested. Of course we do not mean that the petitioner ought to have reported the testimony in full, for such a, report might unnecessarily cumber the files of the court, and might be…