Case ID: sw_159/html/1069-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BETTS v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 25, 1913.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 22, 1913.)
    1. Criminal Daw (§ 1118*) — Continuance-Rulings — Review.
    Denial of a continuance is not reviewable on appeal where the application therefor is not copied in the hill of exceptions in the record complaining of the denial.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. § 2926; Dec. Dig. § 1118.]
    2. CRIMINAL Law (§ 1180) — Appeal — Law op the Case.
    Where rulings on evidence and instructions were reviewed by the court on appeal, they will not be reviewed on a subsequent appeal in the same case.
    LEd. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 3002-3004; Dec. Dig. “ 1180.]
    3. Criminal Law (§ 1141) — Instructions— Objections — Review.
    Where the court defined in its instructions the offense of manslaughter, of which accused was convicted, accused, complaining of the definition, must point out the errors therein, or the court will not review it.
    [Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 3014, 3015, 3020, 3022, 3023; Dec. Dig. § 1141.]
    Appeal from District Court, Palo Pinto County; W. J. Oxford, Judge.
    T. M. Betts was convicted of manslaughter, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    J. W. Moyers, of Mineral Wells, J. C. George, of Stephenville, P. C. Sanders, of Palo Pinto, Chandler & Pannill, of Stephen-ville, and Watson & Simmang, of Giddings, for appellant. C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
    
      
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   HARPER, J.

Appellant was convicted on this trial of the offense of manslaughter, and his punishment was assessed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary. This is the fourth appeal in this case; the opinions in the former appeals being reported in 57 Tex. Cr. R. 389, 124 S. W. 424, 60 Tex. Cr. R. 631, 133 S. W. 251, and 144 S. W. 677, and the facts are so fully stated in these opinions we do not deem it necessary to state them again.

There is no motion for a continuance in the record, and, while there is a bill of exceptions in the record complaining of the action of the court in overruling his motion for a continuance on account of Mrs. Betts, the application is not copied in the bill, and, not being in the record, we cannot review this matter. The court in approving the bill states that the motion was defective and wholly insufficient in law, and, if this is true, were the motion for continuance copied in the record, it would not be of any avail to appellant.

The appellant again objected to the testimony of Bland Marshall, Lena Jones, and Bates Cox. As this testimony was held admissible in all three of the former opinions, we do not deem it necessary to discuss the question again.

Appellant complains that the court erred in not defining manslaughter. As the court did define this offense, if any error there be in such definition, appellant does not seek to point it out. Appellant’s complaint of the charge as specified in bill No. 7, and in the seventh paragraph of the motion, was passed on by this court in the former appeal in this ease reported in 60 Tex. Cr. R. 631, 133 S. W. 251, and under such circumstances we will not again review the question.

The court submitted the issue of aggravated assault as favorably to appellant as the evidence authorized, and in accordance with the former opinions in this case. All the questions presented on this appeal have been decided adversely to appellant in the former opinions in this case.

The evidence supports the verdict, and the judgment is affirmed.