Case Name: TILLMAN v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1909-12-04
Citations: 7 Ga. App. 87
Docket Number: 2210
Parties: TILLMAN v. THE STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 87–88

Head Matter:
2210.
TILLMAN v. THE STATE.
“Twenty days from tlie rendition of the decision,” and not twenty days from the date of the adjournment of the term, is the period within which the hill of exceptions must he tendered in a criminal case.
Submitted November 16,
Decided December 4, 1909.
J. S. Smith, for plaintiff in error.
Walter C. Hartridge, solicitor-general, Anion P. Wright, contra.

Opinion:
Powell, J.
The exception is to the overruling of a motion for a new trial. The order overruling the motion was passed on June 7, during the term of the court at which the defendant was tried. On July 10, while the term was still in session, the bill of exceptions was tendered and signed. If this had been a civil case, the tendering of the bill of exceptions would have been in time. Civil Code, §5539. Since it is a criminal case, it is governed by the provisions of section 5540 of the Civil Code, which prescribes that the bill of exceptions shall be tendered "within twenty days, from the rendi tion of the decision;" and the fact that the term had not expired when the bill of exceptions was tendered makes no difference. See Thompson v. McGhee, 93 Ga. 254 (19 S. E. 32).
Writ of error dismissed.