Davis v. State

It is definitely settled in this state that the exception reserved to the rul: ing of the trial court granting or overruling a motion for a new trial must be shown by the bill of exceptions, before a review of said ruling will be here, on appeal, indulged. Thomas v. Carter, 218 Ala. 55, 117 So. 634; Yates v. Barnett, 215 Ala. 554, 112 So. 122. We cannot consider the action of the trial court, in the instant ease, in overruling appellant’s motion for a new trial, for the reason that the bill of exceptions fails to show an exception reserved to said ruling. So. Ry. Co. v. Scottsboro Wholesale…