State v. Merkle

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Garrison, j.'

The judgment of the Supreme Court affirming the judgment of the Hudson Quarter Sessions convicting Sylvester Merkle of soliciting a bribe for his official vote is before us on “a writ of error bringing up the bill of exceptions as assigned and sealed in the cause.” Rev. Crim. Proc. Act 1898, § 136. “The' entire record of the proceedings had upon the trial” is also returned under the provision of the statute cited. The error with which this opinion deals is presented by an assignment of error based upon the bill of exceptions so signed and…