Case ID: sw_202/html/0733-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

FERGUSON v. STATE.
    (No. 4988.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 10, 1918.)
    Criminal Law <§=1102 — Appeal—Statement of Facts — Questions and Answers.
    On a criminal appeal, a statement of facts made up of questions and answers cannot be considered, and the Attorney General’s motion to eliminate it from consideration will be sustained.
    Appeal from District Court, Galveston County; Clay S. Briggs, Judge.
    Roscoe Ferguson, convicted of theft of property of over $50, appeals.
    Affirmed.
    E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, P. J.

Appellant was convicted of theft of property over $50, and given five years in the penitentiary.

There is but one bill of exception in the record, and this was reserved to the action of the court overruling the motion for new trial. This bill adds nothing to the motion for new trial, nor does it undertake to verify any statements made in the motion. The bill does not change, add to, or detract from the contents of the motion for new trial.

The Assistant Attorney General moves to eliminate the statement of facts from consideration because it is made up of questions and answers. An inspection of the statement of facts shows his position is sustained. Under the authorities the statement of facts cannot be considered. The motion of the Assistant Attorney General will therefore be sustained.

In th'e absence of statement of facts under the condition of the record there is no question presented that can be reviewed.

The judgment will be affirmed.

PRENDERGAST, J., absent.