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Smith v. the State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Nov 12, 1913
160 S.W. 681 (Tex. Crim. App. 1913)

Opinion

No. 2755.

Decided November 12, 1913.

Murder — Statement of Facts — Ninety Days — Filing.

The law requires that statements of facts shall be filed in the lower court within ninety days from the adjournment of the court, and where, upon appeal from a conviction of murder, the record showed that the statement of facts was not filed at all in the lower court, the same can not be considered.

Appeal from the District Court of Camp. Tried below before the Hon. R.W. Simpson.

Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The opinion states the case.

No brief on file for appellant.

C.E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.


Under an indictment and trial for murder, appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at the lowest prescribed by law, — five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The court at which he was tried adjourned May 30, 1913. The record proper was filed in this court on August 28, 1913, just within the ninety days within which the law requires such records to be filed.

There is found with the file what purports to be a statement of facts, but it shows that it was not filed in the lower court at all and not filed in this until September 17, 1913. The law requires that statements of facts shall be filed in the lower court within ninety days from the adjournment of the court. Hence, this purported statement we find with the files can not be considered by us as a statement of facts in the case.

There is no question raised or attempted to be raised that we can consider in the absence of a statement of facts.

The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.


Summaries of

Smith v. the State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Nov 12, 1913
160 S.W. 681 (Tex. Crim. App. 1913)
Case details for

Smith v. the State

Case Details

Full title:HAMP SMITH v. THE STATE

Court:Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Date published: Nov 12, 1913

Citations

160 S.W. 681 (Tex. Crim. App. 1913)
160 S.W. 681