State v. Webster

Douglas, J.:

This is a criminal action charging the three defendants with forcible entry and trespass. There was a verdict of guilty as to two of the defendants, third defendant not having been taken. The convicted defendants appealed, assigning as error the exclusion of certain testimony tending to show title in the defendants, and for the refusal of the Court “to give the instructions he asked, and for instructions given.” We think that the defendants' prayers for instruction ' which were not given by the Court, were properly refused; and we cannot consider the “broadside exception” to the…