Case ID: sw_160/html/1197-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHNSON v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 29, 1913.)
    Appeal from District Court, Houston County; John; S. Prince, Judge. Walter Johnson was convicted of rape, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    C. E. Lane, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, P. J.

The appellant was indicted and convicted of rape on a girl under 15 years of age, and his punishment fixed at '20 years in the penitentiary. There is neither ■a bill of exceptions nor a statement of facts in this case. In the motion for new trial several grounds of it complain of matters that can only be raised and presented by bill of exceptions; and even if there had been bills, they could not properly be considered without a statement of facts. There are none of the other questions .attempted to be raised by the motion for a new trial that can be considered in the absence of ■a statement of facts. The indictment is good, following the statute and the approved forms. The judgment will be affirmed.