Case ID: tex-crim_76/html/0508-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Lloyd Smith v. The State.
    No. 3522.
    Decided April 21, 1915.
    Burglary—Newly Discovered Evidence—Statement of Facts—Bill of Exceptions.
    In the absence of a statement of facts and bills of exception, nothing can be reviewed except the question of the alleged newly discovered testimony, and as this was so well known to the defendant before as subsequent to the trial, there was no reversible error.
    Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Harris. Tried below before the Hon. C. W. Bobinson.
    Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, eight years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    Ho brief on file for appellant.
    
      G. G. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   HARPER, Judge.

Appellant, Ed Shearer and Earl Williams were-jointly indicted, charged with burglary. They were jointly tried, all convicted, and each given eight years in the penitentiary, from which judgment appellant, Lloyd Smith, alone prosecutes an appeal.

The record is before us without any statement of facts or any bills of exception, consequently the only question we can review is whether or not the court erred in refusing a new trial on account of alleged newly discovered testimony. Attached to the motion for a new trial are the affidavits of Hellie Snell and Gertrude Heard. Hellie Snell’s affidavit presents no facts of which appellant must not have been aware as well before as subsequent to the trial, while the affidavit of Gertrude Heard states “that appellant and I remained in his room the balance of the night” after 9 o’clock. If that is true, appellant was as well aware of that fact as was the woman, and in no sense could it be said to be newly discovered testimony.

The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.