Bible v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

LATTIMORE, Judge.

— It is specifically provided in article 760, C. C. P., that bills of exceptions shall not contain questions and answers, save when in the opinion of the judge it is necessary to set out such questions and answers in order to elucidate the fact or question involved. This court, endeavoring to give effect to the statute, seems to have uniformly held bad, — bills of exception in question and answer form, except when the trial judge, in approving such bill, notifies us by the form of his approval that his purpose in allowing a bill containing questions…