Case ID: sw2d_377/html/0952-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DICE, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Robert Lee PENNINGER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 36897.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 22, 1964.
    No attorney of record on appeal, for appellant.
    Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, James C. Brough and J. R. Mussle-white, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
   DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for robbery by assault; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

No statement of facts of the evidence adduced upon the main trial accompanies the record.

One formal bill of exception to certain alleged improper jury argument is found in the transcript. The bill of exception was by the court refused, with the court’s reasons noted thereon, and returned to the clerk. Appellant, after notice by the clerk of the court’s refusal, filed no bystanders bills and took no further action in the matter.

Under the record, the bill of exception cannot be considered. English v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 338 S.W.2d 446; Thompson v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 339 S.W.2d 209; Holley v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 366 S.W.2d 570.

The judgment is affirmed.

Opinion approved by the court.