Case Name: CRAWFORD v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-11-02
Citations: 235 S.W. 214
Docket Number: No. 6409
Parties: CRAWFORD v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 235
Pages: 214–214

Head Matter:
CRAWFORD v. STATE.
(No. 6409.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 2, 1921.
On Motion for Rehearing, Nov. 23, 1921.)
Criminal law &wkey;922(7), 1090(14), 1097(5), 1186(4) — Judgment reversed for omission of written charge in absence of bilí of exceptions and statement of facts.
Judgment will be reversed for omission of written charge to the jury as required by Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. 1916, art. 735, made ground for new trial, though no bill of exception or statement of facts accompanies record, and notwithstanding article 743, prohibiting reversal for technical errors, and such omission may be raised for the first time in motion for new trial.
Appeal from District Court, Kaufman County; Joel R. Bond, Judge.
Hattie Crawford was convicted of having possession of equipment for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and she appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Cooley & Crisp, of Kaufman, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction was for having in possession equipment for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor. Punishment, one year in penitentiary.
No statement of facts or bills of exceptions accompany the record. Judgment was rendered on March 24, 1921. Two days later a formal motion for new trial was filed, and on the 31st day of March an amended motion for new trial was filed, in which for the first time it is set up that no "written" charge was delivered to the jury. The fact that such omission occurred is not authenticated in any -way, either by bill of exception, or by proof upon hearing of the motion for new trial. In this state of the record, under many authorities, we must affirm this case, because of the absence of bills of exception and statement of facts.