Hoodless v. Jernigan

Citations

• 46 Fla. 213

Syllabus

<p>1. A party who objects to evidence or the competency of witnesses should state specifically the grounds of his objections, in order to apprise the court and his adversary of the precise objection he intends to make. General objections to evidence proposed, without stating the precise ground of objections, are vague and nugatory, and are without weight before an appellate court, unless the evidence objected to is palpably prejudicial, improper, and inadmissible for any purpose or under any circumstances, when a general objection thereto is sufficient.</p> <p>2. This court can not consider any objections to the admissibility of evidence, except such objections as were made in the court below, the plaintiff in error being confined to the specific objections made in the trial court.</p> <p>3. In actions at law the party objecting to the introduction of evidence must not only state specifically the grounds of his objections thereto, seasonably except to the ruling of the court thereon, and base his assignment of error upon the objections as made in the court below and upon the ruling thereon, but must argue the assignment as made, in this court.</p> <p>4. The only exception to the rule that errors not assigned or not argued will not be considered by this court is where a jurisdictional or other fundamental error is apparent on the face of the record itself.</p> <p>5. Where a document is offered in its entirety and in its entirety is objected to upon the ground that a portion of it is inadmissible, and that in a general way, such objection should be overruled.</p> <p>6. The evidentiary and ordinary bills of exceptions must be made up separate and distinct from each other, and each must be sufficient and complete in itself to review the errors designed to be presented, and a reference by the court from one to the other is not permissible, to aid defects in either.</p> <p>7. The duty devolves upon the plaintiff in error or his counsel upon resort to an appellate court to