Case ID: tex-crim_72/html/0012-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hamp Smith v. The State.
    No. 2755.
    Decided November 12, 1913.
    Murder—Statement of Facts—Ninety Days—Filing.
    The law requires that statements of facts shall he filed in the lower court within ninety days from the adjournment of the court, and where, upon appeal from a conviction of murder, the record showed that the statement of facts was not filed at all in the lower court, the same can not be considered.
    Appeal from the District Court of Camp. Tried below before the Hon. B. W. Simpson.
    Appeal from a conviction of murder in the second degree; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Under an indictment and trial for murder, appellant was convicted of murder in the second degree and his punishment fixed at the lowest prescribed by law,—five years confinement in the penitentiary.

The court at which he was tried adjourned May 30, 1913. The record proper was filed in this court on August 28, 1913, just within the ninety days within which the law requires such records to be filed.

There is found with the file what purports to be a statement of facts, but it shows that it was not filed in the lower court at all and not filed in this until September 17, 1913. The law requires that statements of facts shall be filed in the lower court within ninety days from the adjournment of the court. Hence, this purported statement we find with the files can not be considered by us as a statement of facts in the case.

There is no question raised or attempted to be raised that we can consider in the absence of a statement of facts.

The judgment is affirmed. Affirmed.