Case Name: SIMS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-11-07
Citations: 255 S.W. 615
Docket Number: No. 7874
Parties: SIMS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 255
Pages: 615–615

Head Matter:
SIMS v. STATE.
(No. 7874.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 7, 1923.)
I. Jury <S=»I3I(4) — Questions asked jurors in proceeding against delinquent ohild held not prejudicial.
In a proceeding against a delinquent child, a question, asked the jurors on their voir dire, as to whether they would convict an incorrigible if the- state made out its case, held not inflammatory or prejudicial to defendant.
2. Criminal law &wkey;>H82 — Conviction affirmed in absence of statement of facts or procedural error.
Where the offense is sufficiently charged, conviction will be affirmed in the absence of statement of facts or procedural error.
Ror other cases see same topic and KEX -NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests and Indexes
Appeal from Olay County Court; J. F. Va-den, Judge.
Doc Thomas Sims was convicted of being a delinquent child, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., of Midland, and Grover 0. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., of Devine, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the county court of Olay county of being a delinquent child and ordered committed to the State Industrial School for Boys, at Gatesville, Tex., from which judgment he appeals.
The record is before us without any statement of facts, which renders it almost' impossible for us to find anything in the various bills of exception filed on behalf of the appellant, as most of them relate to matters dependent for their sufficiency upon other things which should appear in the testimony.
We do not think the question, asked the jurors on their voir dire, in regard to whether they would convict an incorrigible if the state made out its case, to be inflammatory, or one which would operate to prevent the accused from having a fair trial.
The bills of exception relating to the failure of the court to charge on circumstantial evidence, and setting up that the state failed to establish either the first or the second count by testimony; or the alleged illegal admission of certain testimony with reference to appellant sitting in domino parlors until 11 o'clock at night; or the argument of the county attorney with reference to a man going around with a bunch of keys in his pocket — present no error which we can consider or the weight of which we could estimate in the absence of a statement of facts. We are of opinion that the complaint and information sufficiently charged appellant with being a delinquent child, and no error of procedure appearing, and there being no statement of facts, an affirmance must be ordered.