Case Name: HOWARD v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-05-23
Citations: 252 S.W. 524
Docket Number: No. 7687
Parties: HOWARD v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 252
Pages: 524–525

Head Matter:
HOWARD v. STATE.
(No. 7687.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 23, 1923.
Rehearing Denied June 20, 1923.)
Criminal law <&=»1090(8, 14) —In absence of bills of exception to testimony or charge, only sufficiency of indictment and testimony reviewable.
Where there are no bills of exception to the admission or rejection of testimony, or to the charge, only the sufficiency of the indictment and testimony is reviewable.
Appeal from District Court, San Jacinto County; J. L. Manry, Judge.
Jinks Howard was convicted of manslaughter, and appeals.
Affirmed.
Fuller & Fuller, of Houston, J. M. Hansbro, of Cold Springs, and M. E. Gates, of Huntsville, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of San Jacinto county of manslaughter, and his punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.
There are no bills of exception in the record to the admission or rejection of any testimony, or complaining of anything in the charge of the court. The only question for us is the sufficiency of the testimony to support the verdict. There is no denial on the part of the defense that appellant shot and killed deceased about the time alleged in the indictment. Two theories are suggested by the testimony for appellant. One is that of self-defense, based on the proposition that at the time of the shooting deceased had drawn a pistol in such manner as to lead appellant to believe that he was about to execute threats which had been theretofore communicated to him; the other that deceased had been guilty of criminal conduct with the daughter of appellant, which fact had been communicated to the latter, and that on the occasion in question appellant shot and killed deceased under circumstances such as would. reasonably reduce tbe homicide to manslaughter. No complaint appearing in the record of the manner in which these issues were submitted to the jury by the learned trial court, and there being abundant evidence in the record to support the proposition that deceased was doing nothing at the time he was killed, and the jury, in the exercise of their prerogative, having seen fit to find appellant guilty of the lowest degree of homicide submitted, there would seem to be no possible ground for claiming that the verdict was not supported by the testimony.
An affirmance will be ordered.
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