Case ID: mo_105/html/0316-01.html
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Author: {"author": "Gantt, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Harvey, Appellant.
    
    DIVISION TWO.
    Bill of Exceptions: motion for new trial. A motion for a new trial cannot be made a part of the bill of exceptions, unless exceptions are duly taken and saved to the court’s action in overruling it.
    
      Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court. — Hon. H. P.White, Judge.
    Affirmed.
    
      
      E. U. Western and Walter Brannum for appellant.
    
      John M. Wood, Attorney General, for the State.
    The defendant saved no exception to the overruling of her motion for a new trial; consequently, there is nothing before this court for construction except the record proper, and on that the judgment should be affirmed. State v. Marshall, 36 Mo. 400; State v. McDonald, 85 Mo. 539; State v. Reed, 89 Mo. 168 ; State v. Burke, 89 Mo. 638.
   Gantt, P. J.

At the September term, 1889, of the criminal court of Jackson county, Missouri, an indictment was returned against defendant, under section 1252, Revised Statutes, 1879, charging her with giving birth to a child on the thirty-first of August, 1889, and endeavoring to conceal the same by secretly depositing the child in a vault, so that it could not be known whether the child was born alive or dead.

The cause was tried on fourteenth day of October, 1889, and a verdict of guilty was'rendered by a jury and the punishment assessed at four years in the penitentiary. The cause is here on appeal. There is a copy of the motion for a new trial copied into the record proper and again in the a bill exceptions, but it has no place in either. The motion for new trial is no part of the record proper, and we cannot conceive how in the nature of things it has a place in a bill of exceptions, unless the overruling of it formed the basis of an exception, and such an exception was actually taken and saved when the motion was overruled.

If the errors pointed out in the brief of counsel for the defendant were really committed, it is most unfortunate they were not more careful, in making their bill of exceptions, to see that the motion for new trial was properly made a part of the record. State v. McCray, 74 Mo. 303; State v. Pints, 64 Mo. 317; State v. Dunn, 73 Mo. 586. As it is the said errors cannot be noticed in this court.

We have examined the record proper and find no error in it. The judgment must be affirmed.

All concur.