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Author: {"author": "CHRISTIAN, J. MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FISHER v. STATE.
    (No. 11042.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 26, 1927.
    Rehearing Denied Dec. 14, 1927.
    1. Intoxicating liquors <S=236(7) — Evidence held to sustain conviction of possessing liquor for purpose of sale.
    Evidence held sufficient to sustain conviction of possession of intoxicating liquor for purpose of sale.
    On Motion for Rehearing.
    2. Criminal law <®=3l 120(8) — Unless evidence is obviously inadmissible, bill must state grounds of objection to invoke review (Code Cr. Proo. 1925, art. 667).
    Unless evidence is obviously inadmissible for any purpose, bill of exceptions complaining of its receipt must state grounds of objection, and under Code Or. Proc. 1925, art. 667, to invoke a review of trial court’s action upon receipt or rejection of evidence; bill of exceptions is imperative.
    3. Criminal law <©=51091 (10) — Bill of exceptions should show ruling, objection, and that error was committed. .
    Bill of exceptions should show the ruling complained of, the objection made, and that error was committed.
    4. Criminal law <S=5|09I(4) — On complaint that search was made without valid! warrant, bill failing to set out warrant is incomplete.
    When error complained of is that search was made without valid warrant, bill of exceptions is incomplete when it fails to set out warrant in substance or in detail.
    5. Criminal law <©=5698(1), 1090(8)— Objection to evidence is waived, in absence of proper objection or motion to exclude and preservation of proper bill of exceptions.
    Objection to evidence may be waived, and is waived, unless proper objection is made or timely motion to exclude is presented and proper bill of exceptions preserved exhibiting ruling and complaint thereof.
    Commissioners’ D'ecision.
    Appeal from District. Court, Hale County; Charles Clements, Judge.
    Buddie Eisher was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor for purpose of sale, and he appeals. Affirmed.
    Marshall & Stewart, of Lubbock, for appellant.
    A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   CHRISTIAN, J.

The offense is possession for the purpose of sale of spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors containing in excess of one per cent, of alcohol by volume; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

Operating under a search warrant, an officer discovered under the floor of appellant’s residence between 50 and 55 gallons of “chock” beer. Appellant was present at the time the search was made. Two or three days before the search, the officer saw drunk people around appellant’s premises. The officer testified that on or about the time of the search it was a frequent occurrence to see drunk' people around the premises in appellant’s presence. An analysis of the “chock” beer disclosed that it contained 6.5 per cent, of alcohol by volume, and the testimony discloses that it was a spirituous liquid.

Appellant brings forward five bills of exception, wherein it is contended that the trial court erred in admitting certain testimony over his objection. An examination of these bills discloses that they are insufficient to manifest error. ,

It appearing that the evidence is sufficient to sustain the verdict of the jury and judgment rendered thereon, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.

PER OURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and approved by the court. ,

On Motion for Rehearing.

MORROW, P. J.

Appellant insists that his premises were searched without a valid warrant and that this appears from the statement of facts. Neither the warrant nor the affidavit upon which it is based is set out in any of the bills of exceptions, nor is there specific reference thereto in either of the several bills.

Prom bill No. 1 we quote:

“ * * * The state was permitted to introduce in evidence the testimony and statement of G. R. Sturdivant, deputy sheriff, over defendant’s objection, ‘that he went to the home of the defendant and found between 50 and 55 gallons of “chock”; and that he knew whether the “chock” was intoxicating, and permitted said witness to state that said “chock” beer was intoxicating’ — to all of which defendant then and there in open court excepted, and here and now tenders this his bill of exception No. 1, and asks that same be approved and ordered filed as part of the record in this case, which is so ordered, with- the following qualifications: » * ⅝ ipjjg court eoui¿i not know whether the objection to this testimony was, there was no grounds for said objection stated.”

Bill No. 2 is to this effect: The state was permitted to prove by the witness G. R. Stur-divant, over the objections of defendant, to testify as follows:

“I have seen fellows drunk around that place. I have seen them go in there and come out drunk. The defendant was there. It was a day or two before the raid.”

Bill No. 3 makes no reference to a search warrant or complaint of the search, but deals with the testimony of the witness that the appellant had been making “chock.” This the court regarded as admissible upon the issue of intent.

Bill No. 4 complains of the testimony of a witness to the effect that “chock beer” was a spirituous liquor.

Bill No. 5 is a complaint of the receipt of testimony that the liquor found upon the appellant’s premises was spirituous liquor.

Bill No. 6 complains of the testimony to the effect that before the premises were searched the witness had observed that it was frequented by people who were drunk.

In none of these bills does it appear that there was añy objection made to the receipt of the testimony hpon that ground that the search warrant under which the appellant’s premises were searched was invalid. In fact, they are all silent touching the subject of a search warrant.

It is the function of this court to determine whether, in receiving the evidence over the objection made, the trial court was in error, and unless the evidence is obviously inadmissible for any purpose, the bill complaining of its receipt must state the ground of objection. In all cases to invoke a review of the action of the trial court upon the receipt or rejection of evidence, a bill of exceptions is imperative. This & statutory. See article 667, C. C. P. 1925 ; Hays v. State, 94 Tex. Cr. R. 498, 252 S. W. 521; Davis v. State, 96 Tex. Cr. R. 447, 258 S. W. 188; Belcher v. State, 96 Tex. Cr. R. 561, 258 S. W. 815; Welk v. State, 96 Tex. Cr. R. 653, 260 S. W. 1118. The bill should show the ruling complained of, the objection made, and that error was committed. See Wear v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 283 S. W. 811; Murff v. State, 103 Tex. Or. R. 617, 281 S. W. 1076; and other cases collated in Vernon’s Tex. C. C. P. 1925, vol. 2, art. 667, note 3. When the error complained of is that the search was made without a valid warrant, the bill of exceptions is incomplete when it fails to set out the warrant in substance or in detail. See Cornelius on Search and Seizure, § 247, p. 465; Henderson v. State (No. 11178) 1 S. W. (2d) 300, hot yet (officially) reported. The objection to the evidence may be waived, and is waived, unless proper objection is made or timely motion to exclude is presented, and proper bill of exceptions preserved exhibiting the ruling and the complaint thereof.

The bills complaining of the rulings on other matters show no error and require no further discussion.

The motion is overruled. 
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