Case Name: DOVE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-06-15
Citations: 233 S.W. 966
Docket Number: No. 6041
Parties: DOVE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 233
Pages: 966–966

Head Matter:
DOVE v. STATE.
(No. 6041.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 15, 1921.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 19, 1921.)
1. Criminal law <®=»i I440/2, 17) — Presumptions favor regularity of proceedings and correctness of judgment in absence of statement of facts and bills of exceptions.
In the absence of statement of facts and bills of exceptions, every presumption must be indulged in favor of the regularity of the proceedings and the correctness of the judgment,
On Motion for Rehearing.
2. Criminal law &wkey;>l097(4) — Refusal to withdraw evidence from jury not considered in absence of statement of facts.
Court’s refusal to withdraw certain evidence from the jury will not he considered on appeal in the absence of a statement of facts.
Appeal from District Court, Nacogdoches County; L. D. Guinn, Judge.
Will Dove was convicted of having possession of intoxicating- liquors, not for medicinal, mechanical, scientific, or sacramental purposes, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
S. M. Adams, of Nacogdoches, for appellant on rehearing.
R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction was for possession of intoxicating liquors, not for medicinal, mechanical, scientific, or sacramental purposes. Punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.
The record is before this court without statement of facts or bills of exceptions.
The conviction was had at a term of court which adjourned on March 27, 1920. The record was not filed in this court until October 22, 1920. As an excuse for not getting the record filed at an earlier date, the clerk certifies that the attorney for appellant carried the original papers to his office for the purpose of writing the bills of exceptiohs, etc., and lost the papers and was only able to produce them on October 20th, and did not prepare the appeal or furnish the statement of facts.
We much prefer to dispose of cases on the merits; but, in the absence of statement of facts and bills of exceptions, every presumption must be indulged as to the regularity of the proceedings and correctness of the judgment.
The judgment is affirmed.