Case ID: tex-crim_137/html/0607-01.html
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Author: {"author": "GRAVES, Judge. CHRISTIAN, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NOVEMBER 15, 1939
    Joseph Angus & Edson Berthrong v. The State.
    No. 20635.
    Delivered October 18, 1939.
    Rehearing Denied November 15, 1939.
    
      The opinion states the case.
    No attorneys for appellants.
    
      Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.
   GRAVES, Judge.

Appellants were both convicted of robbery by assault and violence, and were by the jury each assessed a penalty of twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

It appears from the record that the appellant Berthrong acted as an attorney for both appellants at the trial, and has filed a very comprehensive brief in this court. Many complaints are made in such brief of the action of the trial court in the trial of the case, but such complained of actions are not found in the record. There are no bills of exception in the record, and, in the absence of such, we are unable to review the complaints found in such brief.

The facts seem to clearly establish the proposition that by means of an assault and by violence the appellants possessed themselves of the complaining witness’ automobile and drove the same into New Mexico, where it was later recovered. They are deemed sufficient to establish the allegations contained in the indictment, and, in the absence of any errors shown, the judgment is affirmed as to both appellants.

ON appellant’s motion for rehearing.

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

In their motion for rehearing appellants contend that they were deprived of their bills of exception. No affidavits are presented in support of this contention. The averments in the unsworn motion cannot be held sufficient to present the question for review.

The motion for rehearing is overruled.

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.