Case ID: tex-crim_71/html/0043-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HARPER, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tom Black v. The State.
    No. 2559.
    Decided June 18, 1913.
    1. —Local Option—Indictment—Precedent.
    Where, upon trial of a violation of the local option law, the indictment conformed to approved precedent, the same was sufficient.
    
      2. —Same—Misconduct of Jury—Presumption.
    W'liere it appeared on appeal that the court heard evidence on the question of the misconduct of the jury, it must be presumed in the absence of a statement of facts that he correctly overruled the motion.
    Appeal from the District Court of Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. H. T. Lyttleton.
    Appeal from a conviction'of a violation of the local option law; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
   HARPER, Judge.

The indictment in this case is drawn in terms frequently approved by this court, and the court did not err in overruling the motion in arrest of judgment.

There is no statement of facts, nor any bill of exception accompanying the record. There is an affidavit attached to the motion alleging the improper conduct of one juror. The State contests this and files the affidavit oí the juror. The court in overruling the motion for new trial states he heard the evidence. This evidence is not brought forward in the record before us, and we must presume the court acted properly.

The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.