Case ID: sw_185/html/0878-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HERNANDEZ v. STATE.
    (No. 4054.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 3, 1916.)
    1. Cbiminal Law ©=all22(4) — Appeal — Statement of Fact.
    Without the evidence on a prosecution for incest the refusal of defendant’s requested instruction that the woman was an accomplice and would need corroboration could not be reviewed.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. § 2942; Dec. Dig. ©=>1122(4).]
    2. Criminal Law ©=>1092(11) — Appeai>-Ex-ceptions — Approval.
    A bill of exceptions to the refusal of a special charge, and a bill containing the argument of the district attorney., neither of which was approved by the trial judge, will not be considered.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2837, 2841; Dec. Dig. <©=> 1092(11).]
    Appeal from District Court, Karnes County; F. G. Chambliss, Judge.
    Gregoria Hernandez was convicted of incest, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, J.

.Appellant was convicted of incest, his punishment being assessed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The record is not accompanied by a statement of the facts. There are four bills of exception in the transcript. The first is to the refusal of the court to give a requested instruction that the girl or the woman was an accomplice and would need corroboration. Without the evidence this question cannot be reviewed.

The second contains a special charge» which was refused by the court, submitting, in a general way, the same proposition, but somewhat amplified. This bill seems not to have been approved by the judge. The bill containing the argument of the district attorney is not verified by the judge. The same may be said of another bill of exceptions. None of these bills state the reasons why these charges áiould have been given, or any objections urged to the court for his refusal to-give them.

In the attitude of the record we believe the judgment does not require a reversal, and it will therefore be affirmed. 
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