Opinion
No. 2701.
Decided October 29, 1913.
Rape — Indictment — Statement of Facts.
In the absence of a statement of facts and bills of exception, where the indictment, in a case of rape, followed approved precedent, there was nothing to review on appeal.
Appeal from the District Court of Houston. Tried below before the Hon. John S. Prince.
Appeal from a conviction of rape; penalty, twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion cites the case.
No brief on file for appellant.
C.E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
The appellant was indicted and convicted of rape on a girl under fifteen years of age, and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.
There is neither a bill of exceptions nor a statement of facts in this case. In the motion for new trial several grounds of it complain of matters that can only be raised and presented by bill of exceptions; and even if there had been bills, they could not properly be considered without a statement of facts. There are none of the other questions attempted to be raised by the motion for a new trial that can be considered in the absence of a statement of facts. The indictment is good, followed the statute and the approved forms.
The judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.