Case Name: Tom Edwards v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1912-02-21
Citations: 65 Tex. Crim. 415
Docket Number: No. 1536
Parties: Tom Edwards v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 65
Pages: 415–416

Head Matter:
Tom Edwards v. The State.
No. 1536.
Decided February 21, 1912.
Rehearing denied March 27, 1912.
Theft of Cattle—Statement of Facts—Diligence.
Where counsel for defendant prepared a statement of facts in due time and presented same to the district attorney who declined to approve it, and thereupon in due time presented same with certificate of disagreement to the trial judge with the request to make out a statement of facts, and said trial judge did not prepare and file a statement of facts within time and not until after the transcript was filed in the Appellate Court, the cause must be reversed and remanded.
Appeal from the District Court of Titus. Tried below before the Hon. P. A. Turner.
Appeal from a conviction of theft of cattle; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
Rolston & Ward, for appellant.
On the question of diligence: Ruston v. State, 15 Texas Crim. App., 336 and 377; Bigham v. State, 36 Texas Crim. Rep., 453; Napier v. State, 57 S. W. Rep., 649.
C. E. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.
On question of negligence: Riojas v. State, 36 Texas Crim. Rep., 182.
On question that statement of facts should be considered: Tankersley v. State, 51 Texas Crim. Rep., 170; Bigham v. State, 36 Texas Crim. Rep., 453; Branch crim. Law, section 41, page 21.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
This is a companion case to Atchley Parker v. State, this day decided. This record is in the same condition as that in the Parker case and for the reasons set out in the opinion in that case, this judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
Prendergast, Judge, absent.