50 Fla. 177 | Fla. | 1905
This cause came on to be heard before the court en banc, upon motion of the defendants in error to strike from the transcript of record what purports to be an ordinary bill of exceptions and an evidentiary bill of exceptions and the notes of the stenographer who took the evidence in the cause. Upon examination of the transcript of record the court finds that the certificates of the Circuit Judge appended to the ordinary bill of exceptions and to the evidentiary bill of exceptions are so informal, irregular and defective as to amount to no au
We think it proper in this cause to again remind the judges of the trial courts that it is their exclusive province and duty to settle all disputes as to the happenings in pais in a cause tried before them, and to authoritatively certify bills of exception containing them to be used in appellate proceedings, and to see to it that the bills of exceptions that they certify correctly and truly state such matters in pais as they really occurred, and that the appellate court has no power or authority to determine or settle disputes or contentions as to the correctness or incorrectness of tbe statements of the evidence or any other matter in pais as set forth in a bill of exceptions, but is limited and confined in its consideration of any question or happening in pais to the statement of such question or