21 Ga. 217 | Ga. | 1857
By the Court.
delivering the opinion.
This being so, it follows that several of the exceptions were not sufficient; as, the exception to the admission of evidence; the exception-to the refusal to order a verdict of acquittal ; and the exception to the refusal to give the charges requested. These exceptions all rest on the same foundation.
And the charge of the Court was manifestly right The question, whether a proper foundation had been laid for the introduction of secondary evidence, that is, whether it had been shown that the bail process was lost, was a question for the Court, not for the jury. And the question submitted to the jury by the Court, included every question in the case; perhaps even this, not excepted.
We therefore think that the several judgments of the Court below ought to be affirmed.
Judgment affirmed.