Case ID: tex-crim_87/html/0269-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Cornelius Lewis v. The State.
    No. 5806.
    Decided April 28, 1920.
    Theft of Hogs—Practice on Appeal.
    In the absence of a statement of facts and bills of exception the charge of the court cannot be considered, the indictment being in proper form and there being no fundamental error in the court’s charge.
    Appeal from the District Court of Wharton. Tried below before the Honorable M. S. Munson.
    
      Appeal from a conviction of theft of hogs; penalty, three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      Alvin M. Owsley, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
    On question of practice on appeal in the absence of a statement of facts: Garcia v State, 217 S. W. Rep., 943.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Wharton County, of the offense of the theft of certain hogs, and his punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

The record is before us without a statement of facts, and without bills of exception. Appellant reserved certain exceptions to the charge of the court, one of them being to the court’s failure to charge on circumstantial evidence, but in the absence of a statement of facts, it is impossible for us to know whether his complaint is well founded. The indictment is in proper form, and finding no fundamental error in the court’s charge, the judgment of the trial court will be affirmed.

Affirmed.