Case ID: sw_286/html/0234-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

GARCIA v. STATE.
    (No. 10244.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 16, 1926.)
    1. Criminal law €=>1099(6).
    Statement of facts filed beyond time allowed by Code Cr. Proc. 1925, art. 760, without extension of time for filing, cannot be considered by Court of Criminal Appeals.
    2. Criminal law €=>1182.
    Where indictment for possession of liquor is regular and there are no facts or complaints of procedure properly before Court of Criminal Appeals, conviction must be affirmed.
    Appeal from District Court, Wharton County; M. S. Munson, Judge.
    Virginia Garcia was convicted of unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor, and appeals.
    Affirmed.
    H. A. Cline, of Houston, for appellant.
    S'am D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Robt. M. Dyles, Asst. State’s Atty., of Groesbeck, for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

Conviction is for the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.

Nothing is brought forward for review by way of bills of exceptions. The statement of facts found in the record cannot be considered by this court for the' reason that it was not filed within the time allowed by law. Notice of appeal was entered on December 18, 1925, and the statement of facts was not filed in this court until April 19, 1926. We fail to find in the record any order granting an extension of time for the filing of the statement of facts beyond the time allowed by statute (article 760, C. C. P. 1925). Therefore the objection of the state’s attorney to the consideration of the statement of facts must be sustained.

The indictment being regular, and there being no facts or complaints of the procedure properly before this court, it has no choice- but to order that the judgment be affirmed.

It is so ordered.