Case Name: CASTELBERRY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-02-23
Citations: 228 S.W. 216
Docket Number: No. 6084
Parties: CASTELBERRY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 228
Pages: 216–217

Head Matter:
CASTELBERRY v. STATE.
(No. 6084.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 23, 1921.)
1. Criminal ¡aw <&wkey;>371(2) — Possession of other property taken at same time admissible.
In a prosecution for larceny, evidence that property taken at the same time as that which defendant was charged with taking was found in his possession is admissible.
2. Criminal law <®^829(l) — Refusal of request covered by charge not error.
The refusal of a request covered by charge given is not error.
3. Criminal law <©=> 1038(1) — Objections and exceptions must be taken before charge is read to jury.
Where the record did not show that any objections in writing were filed or exceptions taken to the charge before it was read to the jury, an alleged error not' of a fundamental character cannot be reviewed, though exceptions were subsequently presented and the matter called to the attention, of the court on motion for new trial.
4. Criminal law <&wkey;>l086(l4) — Taking of exceptions must be verified by record.
Though the bill of exceptions stated that defendant excepted at trial to a portion of the charge, yet, as it nowhere appeared in the record that the exception was presented in writing or that an objection was made in writing, objections to the charge cannot be reviewed; for, when exceptions are taken to the charge before being read to the jury, they must be verified in some way as to inform the appellate court such procedure actually occurred.
Appeal from District Court, Harrison County; P. O. Beard, Judge.
Orrie Castelberry was convicted of the thfift of over $50 in money, and be appeals.
Affirmed.
Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.'
The appellant was convicted in Harrison county for the alleged offense of theft of over $50 in money, and Ms punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
The record is before this- court with only the statement of facts and the transcript, no brief having been filed, and counsel for appellant cites us to no authorities in support of the propositions presented in the «bilis of exceptions contained in the transcript. However, we have examined the same, and find that his bills of exception Nos. 1 and 2 complain of testimony admitted by the trial judge, over his objection, touching appellant's connection with and possession of a check which the evidence shows was taken at the same time that the money is alleged to have been stolen. Appellant in the indictment is charged only with the theft of money, and not also with the theft of the check, but it has been so frequently held by .this court that it is permissible for the state to phow the possession by the accused of property taken at the same time as that for which he is being prosecuted that it is unnecessary to quote authorities with reference to it, and we find no merit in appellant's first two bills of exceptions.
Bills of exceptions Nos. 4, 5, 6, and 7 present no error; they were either to requested charges which were upon the weight of the evidence, or had been covered in the court's general charge.
Appellant's bill of exceptions No. 3 is as follows:
"Be it remembered that on the trial of the above entitled and numbered cause the court, in its written charge delivered to the jury among other instructions, gave the following in paragraph 8, to wit: 'To show the intent with which the defendant acted with respect to the property for the theft of which he is now on trial' — and the defendant at the time of the said trial excepted to said portion of said charge, upon the ground that it was upon the weight of the evidence, and an assumption of guilt of the defendant if the state proved the theft of other property, and the defendant tenders this as his bill of exceptions, and requests the court to approve the same and order filed as a part of the record in this cause."
An inspection of the court's charge develops that counsel is only complaining of a portion •of the paragraph in which the language set out in his bill occurs, but, when we examine the record in this case as it is presented to us, we find this bill cannot be considered because no objections in writing were filed or exceptions taken to the charge of the court before the same was read to the jury, and it has been held in many cases that, if an error was committed not of a fundamental character, .it could not be taken advantage of by appellant where exceptions were subsequently presented, or the matter called to the court's attention for the first time on motion for new trial. Manning v. State, 73 Tex. Cr. R. 72, 164 S. W. 11; James v. State, 72 Tex. Cr. R. 457, 163 S. W. 63; Samples v. State, 80 Tex. Cr. R. 418, 190 S. W. 486; Freeman v. State, 80 Tex. Cr. R. 20, 188 S. W. 425; Tudyk v. State, 79 Tex. Cr. R. 303, 185 S. W. 568; Powell v. State, 79 Tex. Cr. R. 526, 187 S. W. 334.
The bill of exceptions as quoted and as found in the record does say that the appellant excepted at the time of the trial to that portion of said charge, but nowhere in the record does it appear that the exception was presented in writing, or that an objection was made in writing, or exception presented to that portion of the court's charge, or any other portion, prior to the time the charge was read to the jury. The special charges requested by appellant and the main charge of the court were filed on November 13, but no exceptions bear file' mark as disclosed by the record before November 18, which was the same day upon which the motion for a new trial was filed. In the case of Salter v. State, 78 Tex. Cr. B. 325, 180 S. W. 691, this same question was presented to this court, and upon motion for rehearing in that case Judge Davidson uses the following language:
"If there were any exceptions taken to the court's charge before it was read to the jury, there is nothing in the record to verify it, and we are not informed, so far as the record is concerned, that, there were any such exceptions. Of course, where exceptions are taken to the charge before being read to the jury, this ¡must be verified in some way so as to inform this court such procedure actually occurred. Verification of matters of that sort is required."
The record in this case being entirely silent with reference to any such objections or exceptions in writing having been called to the court's attention before his charge was read to the jury, we cannot further review the question, and, finding no errors in the record of which this court may take cognizance, the judgment is ordered affirmed.
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