Carter v. State

Citations

• 20 Fla. 754

Syllabus

<p>1. The rule is well settled that au exception to the charge of the court to the jury must be taken to the identical portion or paragraph of such charge as is alleged to be error ; and that an exception to the entire charge is not sufficient if a single proposition therein is good. 17 Fla., 043, and cases cited.</p> <p>2. Under chapter 3431, Laws 1883, the party may, after verdict rendered, “ embody in a motion for new trial any portion of the charge of the Judge which may be deemed erroneous,” but he must embody in such motion only such portion of the charge as is alleged to be erroneous. That statute does not change the rule. It only gives to the party an opportunity to except after verdict renderied.</p> <p>8. All the evidence used in the proceedings in the court below, and upon the motions subsequent to the verdict, should be embodied in and made a part of a bill of exceptions in order to enable this court to review them.</p>