Narrative Bill of Exceptions Law and Legal Definition
Narrative bill of exceptions is a bill of exceptions in narrative form as distinguished from a verbatim transcript of the evidence. Under some jurisdictions, a bill of exceptions, necessary for a writ of error in a criminal case, may consist simply of a narrative account of the trial proceedings prepared from any available sources, such as the notes or memory of the trial judge, counsel, the defendant, or bystanders, and the trial judge must either certify such a bill as accurate or point out the corrections to be made. [Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12, 32 (U.S. 1956)].
