Case Name: A. B. Van Dyke v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1915-06-09
Citations: 77 Tex. Crim. 526
Docket Number: No. 3591
Parties: A. B. Van Dyke v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 77
Pages: 526–528

Head Matter:
A. B. Van Dyke v. The State.
No. 3591.
Decided June 9, 1915.
Motion for rehearing denied October 13, 1915.
1. —Local Option—County Court—Statement of Facts—Bills of Exception.
Where the alleged statements of facts and bills of exceptions were tiled after the adjournment of the County Court without an order having been entered for that purpose, the same can not be considered on appeal.
2. —Same—Private Docket—Order of Court—Notice of Appeal.
Where it was shown on appeal from the County Court that the judge entered on his private docket a memorandum that defendant asked and was granted the time provided by law in which to file his statement of facts, but said order was not carried forward into the minutes of the court, the same can not be considered on appeal. It is different as to notice of appeal given and entered on the court’s docket.
3. —Same—Information—Local Option in Force—Presumption.
Where" defendant made a motion to quash the information on the ground that the local option law was not in force, but there was no evidence of the fact, this question can not be considered on appeal, and it is questionable whether this could be done on motion to quash. However, this court must presume that the election for local option was properly held, in the absence of an attack upon - it.
Appeal from the County Court of Scurry. Tried below before the Hon. C. R. Buchanan.
Appeal from a conviction of a violation of the local option law; penalty, a fine of $100 and sixty days confinement in the county jail.
The opinion states the case.
Smith & Spiller and W. A. Anderson, for appellant.
On question of filing statement of facts and bills of exception: Art. 845, Code of Criminal Procedure; sec. 2, Acts 1911, adopting C. C. P.; sec. 7, p. 266, Acts 1911; sec. 13, p. 268, Acts 1911.
On question of local option law in force: Dodson v. State, 174 S. W. Rep., 1048.
C. C. McDonald, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
Appellant was charged with violating the local option law.
There are several interesting questions raised in the motion for new trial and bills of exception, but the record is in such condition that the statement of facts and bills of exception can not be considered. All these papers were filed after adjournment of court without an order having been entered for that purpose;" at least "the record is before us without an order authorizing the filing of statement of facts and bills of exception after adjournment of court. In this attitude of the record these papers can not be considered, and the questions suggested in motion for new trial and bills of exception can not be revised.
.The judgment, therefore, will be affirmed.
Affirmed.