Case Name: GOMEZ v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1916-04-12
Citations: 185 S.W. 569
Docket Number: No. 4043
Parties: GOMEZ v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 185
Pages: 569–570

Head Matter:
GOMEZ v. STATE.
(No. 4043.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 12, 1916.)
1. Criminal Law <§=>1097(4) — Abbeals—Rec-ords — Statement op Facts.
Contentions on appeal that the conviction was contrary to the law and the evidence, and was not supported .by the evidence, cannot be considered, where the record contained no statement of facts.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see -Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 2934, 2938, 2939; Dec. Dig. <§=>1097(4).]
2. Criminal Law <§=>1175 — Verdict.
Contentions, in the motion for a new trial, that the verdict was written on an indictment, but did not show which defendant was convicted of the charge, presented no reversible error, where a severance had been obtained and appellant alone was on trial.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Criminal Law, Cent. Dig. §§ 3179-3182; Dec. Dig. <§=> 1175.]
Appeal from District Court, Austin County ; Frank S. Roberts, Judge.
A. Gomez was convicted of sodomy, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Johnson, Matthaei ■& Thompson, of Bell-ville, for appellant. C. C. McDonald, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, J.
Appellant was convicted of sodomy, his punishment being assessed at five years' confinement in the penitentiary.
The indictment is attacked as being insufficient. It follows the form laid down by Judge Willson in Willson's Texas Criminal Forms No. 261, wbicb bas been beld sufficient in its averments to state tbis character of case of sodomy. There were no exceptions to the charge. The motion for new trial is based: First, upon the insufficiency of the indictment; second, that the verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and the evidence; and, third, that the verdict is not supported by the evidence introduced by the state. The first proposition has been met by reference to Judge Willson's forms. The second and third grounds may be answered by stating that the record is before ús without a statement of facts.
It was also contended in the motion for new trial that the verdict of the jury is written on an indictment, but does not show which defendant was found guilty of the charge of sodomy. Gomez, appellant, alone was on trial, a severance having been obtained. As this record is presented to the court, we find no reversible error.
The judgment will therefore be affirmed.
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