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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PHILLIPS v. STATE.
    (No. 6202.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 13, 1921.
    Rehearing Denied Oct. 19, 1921.)
    (. Criminal law <&wkey;>l090(8) — Evidence not reviewed in absence of bill of exceptions.
    The admission or rejection of evidence will not be reviewed on appeal, in the absence of a bill of exceptions, notwithstanding complaints of rulings of the court upon the admission of evidence in the motion for a new trial.
    2.Criminal law &wkey;?l 144(14) — Charge pre^ sumed applicable to facts in absence of statements of facts.
    In view of Code Cr. Proc. 1911, arts. 735, 743, the court’s charge will be presumed to be applicable to the facts, in the absence of a statement of facts.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; Robert B. Seay, Judge.
    Marie Phillips, alias Jack Gafford, was convicted of robbery, and she appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Howard H. Dailey, of Dallas, for appellant.
    R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

Conviction is for robbery. Punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of five years.

The indictment lacks none of the essential elements. No statement of facts accompanies the record, nor do we find any bill of exceptions.

In the motion for a new trial there are complaints of certain rulings of the court upon the admission of evidence and certain criticisms of the court’s charge and the refusal of special charges requested.

To enable this court to review the rulings of the trial court upon the admission or rejection of evidence, a bill of exceptions is in practically' all cases essential. Daffin v. State, 11 Tex. App. 76; other eases collated in Vernon’s Criminal Statutes, vol. 2, p. 534, note 15.

' A motion for a new trial is inadequate for this purpose. Clifton v. State, 70 Tex. Cr. R. 346, 156 S. W. 1179; Hart v. State, 61 Tex. Cr. R. 511, 134 S. W. 1178; Brown v. State, 58 Tex. Cr. R. 336, 125 S. W. 915; other cases in Vernon’s Grim. Statutes, vol. 2, p. 535. By the statute it is required that objections to the charge shall be made before it is read to the jury (Code of Criminal Procedure, art. 735), and that the refusal of special charges must also be then objected to (Code of Criminal Procedure, art. 743; Vernon’s Criminal Statutes, vol. 2, pp. 525, 526).

The merits of the criticisms of the charge in the instant case would not be discernible in the absence of the statement of facts which were before the trial judge and to which the charges are presumed to have been applicable. Nelson v. State, 59 Tex. Cr. R. 149, 127 S. W. 1020; Vernon’s Texas Criminal Statutes, vol. 2, p. 520, notes 52 and 53.

In the absence of the disclosure of errors committed upon the trial, and without the facts before us, we must presume that the procedure was regular and the evidence sufficient.

The judgment is affirmed.

On Motion for Rehearing.

An affirmance was ordered on the 13th day of April last, and during the same month a motion for rehearing was filed stating that, though no statement of facts nor bills of exceptions accompanied the record, they were in existence, and that for reasons advanced in the motion unavoidable circumstances had prevented their filing. In the motion the court is requested to consider them together with the explanation of delay. Up to this time they have never been filed, and we feel constrained to pass on the motion without deferring the matter longer. In the absence of the bills of exceptions and statement of facts, we have nothing before us that was not disposed of on the-original hearing.

The motion is overruled.