Case ID: tex-crim_71/html/0551-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Walter Johnson v. The State.
    No. 2701.
    Decided October 29, 1913.
    Rape—Indictment—Statement of Facts.
    In the absence of a statement of facts and bills of exception, where the indictment, in a case of rape, followed approved precedent, there was nothing to review on appeal.
    Appeal from the District Court of Houston. Tried below before the Hon. John S. Prince.
    
      Appeal from a conviction of rape; penalty, twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion cites the case.
    Ho brief on file for appellant.
    
      C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
   PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

The appellant was indicted and convicted of rape on a girl under fifteen years of age, and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.

There is neither a bill of exceptions nor a statement of facts in this case. In the motion for new trial several grounds of it complain of matters that can only be raised and presented by hill of exceptions; and even if there had been bills, they could not properly be considered without a statement of facts. There are none of the other questions attempted to be raised by the motion for a new trial that can be considered in the absence of a statement of facts. The indictment is good, followed the statute and the approved forms.

The judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.