Case ID: sw_226/html/0410-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WATSON v. STATE.
    (No. 6018.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Dec. 16, 1920.)
    Criminal law <&wkey;i 122(4) — In absence of showing refusal of charge was erroneous, court must hold no error presented.
    Where the special charge which was refused defendant prosecuted for murder related to a matter of testimony, and the Court of Criminal Appeals is not informed of facts to show it was error to refuse such charge, the court is compelled to hold that the refusal presents nothing justifying reversal.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; Robt. B. Seay, Judge.
    Jerome Watson was convicted of murder, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

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

The record is before us without any statement of facts or bills of exceptions. We have examined the charge of the court and conclude that it substantially presents the law of the case. There appears one special charge which was refused, but, as it relates to a matter of testimony, and we are not informed therein of sufficient facts to show that it was error to refuse it, we would be compelled to hold that such refusal presents nothing justifying reversal. There appearing no error in the record which would require a reversal of the case, its affirmance is ordered. 
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