Case Name: BRYANT v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1933-10-25
Citations: 63 S.W.2d 1022
Docket Number: No. 16108
Parties: BRYANT v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 63
Pages: 1022–1022

Head Matter:
BRYANT v. STATE.
No. 16108.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Oct. 25, 1933.
Wm. McMurrey and M. G. Hansboro, both of Coldspring, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Conviction is for rape upon a female under fifteen years of age; punishment assessed at five years in the penitentiary.
No statement of facts or bills of exception appear in the record.
As a ground for motion for new trial appellant claimed newly discovered evidence. The fact of it being newly discovered was controverted by the state. In the judgment overruling the motion it is recited that evidence was thereon submitted. Such evidence is not brought before this court either by statement of facts or bills of exception. In such condition the presumption must prevail that the court ruled correctly upon the motion. Furthermore, it may be remarked that in the absence of the facts proven on the main trial, the relevancy or otherwise of claimed newly discovered evidence cannot be appraised.
The judgment is affirmed.