Opinion
No. 19272.
Delivered January 5, 1938. State's rehearing denied February 23, 1938.
1. — Intoxicating Liquor (Sale in Dry Area) — Evidence — Election.
Where the statement of facts contained agreement of State and defendant to admit all the recitations in Volume 6 of the Commissioners' Court's minutes in regard to liquor election held in Johnson County on April 7, 1904, and said Volume 6 was introduced in evidence, and testimony of county clerk, referring to Volume 6, that said volume contained facts relating to prohibition election held on April 7, 1904, but there was nothing in statement of facts to show that the election had resulted in the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquor, and that the result was declared and published by the Commissioners' Court, held, in absence of such proof, evidence was insufficient to sustain conviction of selling whisky in a dry area.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.2. — Statement of Facts — Amended or Supplemental Statements.
A statement of facts can not be amended or supplemented by either party after record has reached the appellate court.
Appeal from the County Court of Johnson County. Hon. J. P. Seroyer, Judge.
Appeal from conviction for selling whisky in a "dry area"; penalty, fine of $100.
Reversed and remanded.
The opinion states the case.
W. E. Myres, of Fort Worth, and A. C. Chrisman, of Cleburne, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State's Attorney, of Austin, for the State.
The offense is selling whisky in a "dry area"; the punishment, a fine of $100.
We find in the statement of facts the following: "Both the State and the defendant agreed and admitted all the recitations in Volume 6 of the Commissioners' Court's minutes in regard to the liquor election held in Johnson County, Texas, on April 7, 1904, and said Volume 6 was introduced in evidence, as agreed by both the State and the defendant."
Referring to Volume 6, the county clerk testified as follows: "This volume recites herein the facts relating to a prohibition election which was held in Johnson County, Texas, on the 7th day of April, 1904. It contains something in regard to the election having been held on April 7, 1904."
There is nothing in the statement of facts to show that the election had resulted in the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating liquor, and that the result had been duly declared and published by the commissioners' court. Appellant's contention that, in the absence of such proof the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction, must be sustained. Green v. State, 101 S.W.2d 241; Humphreys v. State, 99 S.W.2d 600.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
The State has filed a motion for rehearing, attached to which is a supplemental statement of facts supplying the omission from the one originally filed, which defects therein resulted in the reversal of the judgment. This subject has been before the Court frequently. In some instances the State would seek to amend the statement of facts and in others the appellant. It has been the consistent holding that a statement of facts could not be amended or supplemented by either party after the record has reached the appellate court. To permit it would do away with all orderly procedure. See Brande v. State, 45 S.W. 17; McBride v. State, 93 Tex.Crim. Rep., 246 S.W. 394 and cases therein cited; Hurd v. State, 99 Tex.Crim. Rep., 269 S.W. 439; Davidson v. State, 109 Tex. Crim. 251, 4 S.W.2d 74; Ex parte Kennedy, 126 Tex. Crim. 653, 72 S.W.2d 915; Rountree v. State, 128 Tex. Crim. 28, 78 S.W.2d 629.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.