Opinion
No. 12079.
Delivered December 19, 1928. Rehearing denied January 23, 1929.
1. — Sale of Intoxicating Liquor — Statement of Facts — Bills of Exception — Filing Time.
Where statement of facts and bills of exception are filed more than ninety days after notice of appeal, Art. 760, C. C. P., 1925 precludes their consideration. Trial judges are without authority to grant more than ninety days after notice of appeal. See Chisholm et al. v. State, 1 S.W.2d 613; Williams v. State, 299 S.W. Rep. 258.
ON REHEARING.2. — Same — No Error Shown.
The plain provisions of the statute are just as binding on this court as they are upon other tribunals. Except in cases where an appellant has been deprived of his statement of facts or bills of exception through no negligence or fault of his attorney the court is without authority to consider either a statement of facts or bills of exceptions filed beyond the time permitted by statute.
Appeal from the District Court of Palo Pinto County. Tried below before the Hon. J. B. Keith, Judge.
Appeal from a conviction for the sale of intoxicating liquor, penalty two years in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
No brief filed for appellant.
A. A. Dawson of Canton, State's Attorney, for the State.
The offense is the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.
The appellant was tried on the 5th day of March. Notice of appeal was entered on the 24th of that month. The statement of facts was filed on the 20th of July. On the same day the three bills of exceptions found in the record were filed. The maximum time within which the law would permit the filing of the statement of facts and bills of exceptions was ninety days after March 24th, which time expired June 22, 1928. The statute (Art. 760, C. C. P., 1925), precludes the consideration of the bills of exceptions and statement of facts for the reason that neither was filed within the time allowed by law. The order of the trial judge allowing ninety days after the adjournment of court within which to file the bills of exceptions and statement of facts would not be effective after the expiration of the ninety days from the date upon which notice of appeal was given. See Art. 760, note 44, Vernon's Tex. C. C. P., 1925, Vol. 3, p. 122; Chisholm, et al. v. State, 1 S.W.2d 613; Williams v. State, 299 S.W. Rep. 258. The motion of the State to have the bills of exceptions and statement of facts disregarded must be sustained.
No fundamental error in the record has been perceived.
The judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
Appellant makes a motion, and supports same by affidavit, which strongly presents an appeal to the humanity and clemency of the Governor, but which can not be given effect by this court. We are not privileged to override the statute because of the ignorance, race or sex of the person asking us so to do. It is plainly required by statute that bills of exception and statement of facts in an appeal in a criminal case, must be filed within ninety days after the date of the giving of notice of appeal, else this court can not consider same. Art. 760 C. C. P. If the facts stated in the affidavits attached to appellant's motion are true, she has been unquestionably misled and mistreated by those to whom she confided her interests upon this trial. We are compelled to follow the law. The bills of exception and statement of facts were not filed in time. Same can not be considered.
The motion for rehearing will be overruled.
Overruled.