New York Supreme Court November 15, 1865 (People v. Gardiner)

By the Court, Mason, J.

This court has no jurisdiction to review the question here raised on this bill of exceptions. Bills of exceptions, by which questions of law made and decided on criminal trials may be brought up and reviewed in a higher court, were unknown to the common law; and although allowed by our statutes, yet the statute limits the right to exceptions taken on the trial of the main