Hickerson v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for murder, convicted of involuntary manslaughter, and has appealed in error to this court.

A preliminary motion is made by the State to strike the hill of exceptions from the transcript. This motion must be granted as to that portion of the bill of exceptions containing the evidence heard upon the trial of the case. The bill of exceptions was not signed and filed at the trial term, nor within sixty days thereafter. And consequently so much of the bill of exceptions as contained proceedings at the trial term must go out. Dunn v. State, 127 Tenn., 267, 154 S.…