Case ID: sw_290/html/0175-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

COTTRELL v. STATE.
    (No. 10678.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 19, 1927.)
    Criminal law &wkey;>1144(</2) — Regularity of trial for manufacturing liquor will be presumed, in absence of statement of facts and bills of exception.
    On appeal from conviction for unlawfully manufacturing malt liquor, in absence of statement of facts and bills of exception from record, reviewing court will presume all proceedings regular; offense having been properly charged in indictment.
    Appeal from District Court, Caldwell County; M. C. Jeffrey, Judge.
    Will Cottrell was convicted of manufacturing malt liquor with excess content of alcohol, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Ben F. Cone, of Mexia, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Robt. M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., of Groesbeck, for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Conviction was for manufacturing malt liquor containing in excess of 1 per cent, of alcohol by volume, and punishment assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

The record is before us without statement* of facts or bills' of exception. The indictment charges an offense. The regularity of all proceedings must be presumed in the absence of complaint. Nothing is presented to this court for review.

The judgment is affirmed. 
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