Case Name: STATE v. MITCHELL
Court: Louisiana Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Louisiana
Decision Date: 1903-11-30
Citations: 111 La. 404
Docket Number: No. 15,063
Parties: STATE v. MITCHELL.
Judges: 
Reporter: Louisiana Reports
Volume: 111
Pages: 403–405

Head Matter:
(35 South. 617.)
No. 15,063.
STATE v. MITCHELL.
(Nov. 30, 1903.)
CRIMINAL LAW—APPEAL-BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.
1. The object of a formal bill is to inform the appellate court of that which is deemed illegal, and the reasons therefor. There being no bill of exceptions in the record, no assignment of errors and motion in arrest, and no prejudicial error apparent, the appeal must be dismissed.
(Syllabus by the Court.)
Appeal from Seventeenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Vermilion; Minos Thomas Gordy, Jr., Judge.
David Mitchell was found guilty of burglary and larceny, and appeals.
Dismissed.
S. P. Watts, for appellant. Walter Guión, 'Atty. Gen., and J. Nelson Greene, Dist. Atty. (Lewis Guión, of counsel), for the State.
Rehearing denied January 18, 1904.

Opinion:
B.REAUN, J.
The defendant, David Mitchell, was found guilty, as charged, of burglary and larceny, and was sentenced to two years and six months for burglary, and six months for larceny.
tie, through counsel, filed a motion to quash the indictment. This motion appears to have been taken up, tried, and overruled. To the action of the court no bill of exception was taken in the form required, and the evidence upon which it is averred the motion was based is not before us.
Errors can be made available only by exceptions duly taken on the trial. The Supreme Court will not notice objections which are not explicitly incorporated in a bill of exceptions. Not only the bill must be taken, but the testimony relied upon must be made part of the bill.
Eor reasons assigned, the appeal is dismissed.