Case Name: John P. WILLETT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1955-06-22
Citations: 280 S.W.2d 746
Docket Number: No. 27698
Parties: John P. WILLETT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 280
Pages: 746–747

Head Matter:
John P. WILLETT, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 27698.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 22, 1955.
No attorney on appeal for appellant.
Leon Douglas, State’s- Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
WOODLEY, Judge.
The conviction is for driving a motor véhicle' upon a public highway while intoxicated, the jury having assessed as punishment one year'in jail and a fine of $250. ., ;
The statement of facts found in the record, which is agreed by counsel for the State and for appellant to be "a correct statement of all the facts given in evidence on the trial" and which is approved by the trial judge, requires that'the cause be reversed for insufficiency of the evidence.
According to this statement of facts the State offered -no testimony to show that appellant was intoxicated. No witness testified that he was intoxicated or expressed his opinipn on - the subject.
The evidence shows that appellant complied with the request 'of -the arresting officers and blew up. a balloon for an intoxi-meter test, and that it was turned over to "authorities at the courthouse". But there is no evidence to show that the intoximeter test which the state's witness examined was that which the officers took from appellant.
Because the. evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction, .we need, not pass upon the bills of exception. We observe, however, that'the bills .are' formal bills and were not separately filed 'in the trial court and included in the transcript, as required by 'law. " -
We also notice that in qualifying the bills of exception the trial court recites certain testimony which if given and included in the statement of facts might have supplied the evidence, the absence of which requires that the conviction be set aside.
The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded. -