Case ID: sw_291/html/0550-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GRAYSON v. STATE.
    (No. 10623.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 23, 1927.)
    1. Criminal law <@=l 171 (6) — Prosecuting attorney’s statement in murder trial, that accused “did not give E. chance of yellow dog,” held not reversible error.
    Statement of district attorney to jury in prosecution for murder, that accused “did not give E. the chance of a yellow dog,” was not a serious violation of the rules of argument.
    2. Criminal law (§=1038(1) — Appellate court will not consider objections to charge not presented before it was read to jury.
    The Court of Criminal Appeals will not consider objections to charge to jury not shown by the record to have been presented to the court before the charge was read to jury.
    Appeal from District Court, Polk County; J. L. Manry, Judge.
    Materson Grayson was convicted of. murder, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    See, also, 104 Tex. Cr. R. 364, 284 S. W. 563.
    S. F. Hill, of Livingston, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Robt. M. Lyles, Asst. State’s Atty., of Groesbeck, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Conviction of murder; punishment, 99 years in the penitentiary.

Appellant shot and killed deceased. From the record it appears that there had been a misunderstanding, claimed by appellant to have amounted to an assault upon him by deceased, a short time before the homicide. Appellant left the place where he claimed deceased had assaulted him, went to his home, then, accompanied by his father, returned aa-med with a gun to where deceased was at work in a sawmill. According to the state’s testimony, appellant’s father at once assaulted deceased, cutting him several times with a knife while appellant was standing off to one side. There is testimony that when appellant and his father reached the mill appellant said, “He is not here,” but his father said, “Yes, yonder he is,” and ran down toward deceased. The testimony shows further that after appellant’s father cut deceased with the knife the latter used a shovel and knocked said father down, whereupon appellant said, “Look out! look out!” and his father, who had gotten up, stepped to one side and appellant shot deceased with a shotgun. A witness testified that appellant told him of the difficulty shortly after it occurred and laughed and said, referring to deceased, “If he is not dead he will die; I tried to blow his old heart out.”

There is but one bill of exceptions in the record which complains of argument used by the district attorney. It appears that he said to the jury, “He did not give Will Evans the chance of a yellow dog.” We are not inclined to consider this as any serious violation of any of the rules of argument.

There are some other complaints in the brief on file in appellant’s behalf which are not borne out by the record. We do not consider objections to the charge unless we learn from the record that same were presented to the trial court before the charge was road to the jury. Objections to the charge presented first in the motion for new trial or on appeal to this court have no standing.

Finding no error in the record, the judgment will be affirmed.