Layton v. State

Assignment of errors in a criminal case, on appeal, is permissible, but not essential to review and revise points of decision involved. The statute expressly provides that in all cases (criminal) taken to the Supreme Court, or this court, no assignment of errors or joinder in errors is necessary ; and this statute (section 3258, Code 1923) places the duty upon these courts to consider all questions apparent on the record, or reserved by bill of exceptions, and to render such judgment as the law demands.

Upon this appeal we can go no further than the record proper, because of the noncompliance…