Case Name: MADISON v. THE STATE
Court: Court of Appeals of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1908-04-09
Citations: 4 Ga. App. 218
Docket Number: 1063
Parties: MADISON v. THE STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: Georgia Appeals Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 218–218

Head Matter:
1063.
MADISON v. THE STATE.
Where all the assignments of error depend upon a consideration of the evidence, and what purports to be the brief of the evidence is not approved by the trial judge, the judgment refusing a new trial must of necessity be affirmed.
Indictment for arson, from Clarke superior court — Judge Brand. January 31, 1908.
Argued March 31,
Decided April 9, 1908.
W. M. Smith, II. O. Tuch, for plaintiff in error.
£¡. J. Tribble, solicitor-general, John B. Gamble, contra.

Opinion:
Powell, J.
' The attention of the court is formally called to the fact that the brief of the evidence does not bear the approval of the trial judge. This, of necessity, prevents our consideration of the assignments of error, all of which depend on the evidence. By a certificate made subsequently to the transmission of the record, the trial judge states that the brief is in fact correct, and was left unapproved by inadvertence. However, this act of fairness on the part of the trial judge can not help the matter; we have no jurisdiction to consider facts of a case not presented to us in the manner prescribed by statute; and this is not the manner prescribed. We have not created these technicalities; the law itself has established them, and we have no power to destroy them. Therefore, any opinion we may express on the evidence is purely personal; but since both sides of the case seem to wish our views, we may say that we personally thin'k that, while the evidence does not make a strong case, it is probably legally sufficient to support the verdict. Judgment affirmed.