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Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILKES v. STATE.
    (No. 7230.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Nov. 29, 1922.)
    Criminal law <&wkey;1122(6) — Refusal of special charges, not shown to have been presented after introduction of evidence and before argument, not considered on appeal.
    Refusal of special charges not shown, by notation thereon by the trial judge, nor by any bill of exceptions in the record, to have been presented after the introduction of the evidence and before the argument, will not be considered on appeal.
    <0=»Por other eases see same topic and KET-NTJMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes
    Appeal from Criminal District Court,- Tar-rant County; George E. Hosey, Judge.
    Zelmo Wilkes was convicted of murder,- and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    W. A. Keeling, Atty. Gen., and C. L. Stone, Asst. Atty. Gen.,»for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Appellant was convicted in the criminal district court of Tarrant county of the offense of murder, and his punishment fixed at 10 years in the penitentiary.

The statement of facts reflects a case in which deceased, a negro whose legs had been cut off at some prior time, was killed by a shotgun wound inflicted by appellant. A witness testified that appellant told him, a few minutes after the killing, that he went up behind deceased, called him, and, as the latter turned, shot him. The wound inflicted upon the deceased was in the side, and, according to the testimony, showed to have been fired at such close range as that the bulk of the shot entered at one place. A witness testified that he judged from the wound that the distance between the parties was not over 15 feet.

Appellant’s defensive theory was that his wife had left him and taken up with deceased, and that his mental condition was such as that he could have been in no event guilty of an offense greater than manslaughter. The charge of the trial court seems to have been satisfactory to appellant, and these issues of fact were decided against him by the jury under the instructions of the court. The record presents the fact that certain special charges were asked, but nothing appears in said record showing at what time in the trial said charges were presented. Neither by notation thereon by the trial judge nor by any bill of exeptions in the record is it made to appear that said charges were presented after the introduction of the .evidence and before the argument. This has been uniformly held to be necessary, in order to entitle the refusal of such charge to consideration at our hands.

The record presenting no error, an affirmance will be ordered.