State v. Matthews

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Fenner, J.

Charges of error are based on five bills of exception.

Bill No. 1 is taken to the refusal of the judge to instruct the clerk to embody in the transcript the form of the oath administered to the jury. The refusal was utterly inconsequent, because the bill of exception, signed by the judge, contains the oath in full, and it is the same which we have heretofore sanctioned as legal. State vs. Johnson, 37 Ann. 421; State vs. Logan, id. 778; State vs. Vinson, id. 792.

Bill No. 2 arraigns the refusal of the judge to charge that, “the jury is a…