Case ID: sw_287/html/0257-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BRADFORD v. STATE.
    (No. 10475.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 13, 1926.)
    1. Criminal law i&wkey;l091(IO).
    Objection to evidence cannot be considered ground for reversal, where bill failed to show exception was taken to court’s failure or refusal to sustain objection.
    2. Criminal law &wkey;M 120(5), 1124(3).
    Erroneous rulings on evidence or on motion for new trial for newly discovered evidence are ground for reversal only where prejudicial, and cannot be so considered where appellate court is not informed as to what evidence was adduced at trial.
    Appeal from ‘District Court, Angelina County; C. A. Hodges, Judge.
    Spence Bradford, Jr., was convicted of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Collins & Collins, of Lufkin, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Robt. M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., of Groesbeek, for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The offense is the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

We find no statement of facts in the record.

Appellant filed a motion for new trial and introduced some evidence in support thereof. The motion, together with the evidence, is embraced in a bill of exceptions. In the motion it is averred that a witness who was an officer testified to material facts against the appellant, which facts were ascertained upon the execution of a search warrant to search the private residence of the appellant; that objection was made to the receipt of this evidence upon the ground that it did not appear that the search warrant was based upon a lawful affidavit. The bill fails to show, however, that any exception was taken to the court’s failure, or refusal to sustain the objection. For that reason the objection to the evidence cannot be considered as ground for reversal.

It is also averred in the. motion that since the trial new evidence has been discovered which would establish the fact that the affidavit upon which the search warrant was based was signed by but one person. It is obviously a sound rule, and one that has often been made effective, that ordinarily complaint of the receipt or exclusion of evidence or the rejection of new evidence cannot be appraised upon appeal in the absence of knowledge of what evidence was before the court. The receipt or exclusion of evidence upon the trial or the refusal of a motion for new trial on account of the discovery of new evidence after the trial is available for the purpose of reversing a judgment only when it is made to appear that the court’s action, when considered in the light of the facts that were before the court, was prejudicial to the accused in the conduct of his case. Apparently this rule applies to the present record and renders a reversal of the judgment unwarranted.

The judgment is affirmed. 
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