Opinion
No. 29375.
December 18, 1957. Rehearing Denied January 29, 1958.
Appeal from the 97th Judicial District Court, Montague County, Louis T. Holland, J.
Marvin F. London, Joe H. Cleveland, Bonie, for appellant.
Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
The offense is cattle theft; the punishment, two years.
The record on appeal contains no statement of facts or bills of exception. All proceedings appear to be regular and nothing is presented for review. The judgment is affirmed.
On Appellant's Motion for Rehearing
A statement of facts which was timely filed in the trial court has been received and filed and will be considered.
Appellant agrees that he received a fair and impartial trial up to the time the State and defense closed and the charge was prepared, and the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is not challenged.
Appellant testified that he took the cattle from the pen of the prosecuting witness and sold them under the mistaken belief that they were his own.
The contention is advanced that the trial court erred in permitting the State to reopen after both sides had closed, and in allowing witnesses who had violated the rule to testify and contradict appellant's defense.
That the rule had been invoked and violated is shown only as a ground of objection, made for the first time during the examination of the third and last witness recalled by the State after being allowed to reopen.
We find in the record no facts upon which we would be authorized to hold that the trial judge abused his discretion in allowing the State to reopen, or in permitting the witnesses recalled by the State to testify. In the absence of such a showing we are not authorized to reverse the conviction. 42 Tex.Jur. 104, Sec. 75, and cases cited. See also Palm v. State, 149 Tex.Crim. R., 195 S.W.2d 354.
Appellant's motion for rehearing is overruled.