Case Name: Walter Johnson v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1913-10-29
Citations: 71 Tex. Crim. 551
Docket Number: No. 2701
Parties: Walter Johnson v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 71
Pages: 551–552

Head Matter:
Walter Johnson v. The State.
No. 2701.
Decided October 29, 1913.
Rape—Indictment—Statement of Facts.
In the absence of a statement of facts and bills of exception, where the indictment, in a case of rape, followed approved precedent, there was nothing to review on appeal.
Appeal from the District Court of Houston. Tried below before the Hon. John S. Prince.
Appeal from a conviction of rape; penalty, twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion cites the case.
Ho brief on file for appellant.
C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.
The appellant was indicted and convicted of rape on a girl under fifteen years of age, and his punishment fixed at twenty years in the penitentiary.
There is neither a bill of exceptions nor a statement of facts in this case. In the motion for new trial several grounds of it complain of matters that can only be raised and presented by hill of exceptions; and even if there had been bills, they could not properly be considered without a statement of facts. There are none of the other questions attempted to be raised by the motion for a new trial that can be considered in the absence of a statement of facts. The indictment is good, followed the statute and the approved forms.
The judgment will be affirmed.
Affirmed.