Texas Supreme Court July 1, 1853 (State v. Cartwright)

Wheeleb, J.

When the present question, as to the neeessfiy.of an assignment of errors in appeals by the State in criminal cases, was first brought before the court at its first session at Galveston, I was inclined to the opinion that the law respecting the assignment of errors did not apply to such cases; that they were not within its reasons; and that the statute giving the appeal sufficiently