Spencer v. State

1. The assignments of error in the bill of exceptions in this case are to the overruling of the motion for a new trial and the direction of a verdict by the presiding judge against the defendant’s plea in abatement; and the only ground of the motion for the new trial are the grounds that the verdict is contrary to law and the evidence. The plaintiff in error, in undertaking to show wherein the verdict is contrary to the evidence, divided the general grounds into numerous subdivisions, specifying wherein the evidence failed to authorize the verdict, hut, all of them considered, they amount to…