State v. Dyer

The defendants were tried for murder and convicted of manslaughter. Their appeal presents 36 bills of exception, the greater of which are purely frivolous, 'consisting of bills to rulings on evidence, to wit, alleged relevant testimony excluded or irrelevant testimony admitted. But these bills do not show how or why the testimony was relevant or irrelevant, as they refer only to isolated questions, with*381out the slightest indication of the connection in which they were asked. Indeed, many of the questions were not even answered, and there is not the least indication how the answers given to…