Case Name: DOBBS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-03-14
Citations: 251 S.W. 1057
Docket Number: No. 7522
Parties: DOBBS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 251
Pages: 1057–1058

Head Matter:
DOBBS v. STATE.
(No. 7522.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 14, 1923.
Rehearing Granted May 23, 1923.)
I.Criminal law <&wkey;l 153(5)— Excusing witnesses from rule matter of discretion.
Excusing witnesses from the rule, under Code Cr. Proc. 1911, art. 719, is discretionary, and such discretion is not reviewable in the absence of abuse of discretion; and ordinarily It is not an abuse of discretion to excuse from the rule an officer of the court who is necessary to the transaction of its business in the conduct of the trial, unless injury is shown.
2. Witnesses <&wkey;397 — Impeaching evidence not available as original evidence.
Where a witness is impeached by .showing a statement out of court contradicting testimony in court, such an impeaching statement is not original evidence, but available only to affect the credibility of the witness.
3. Witnesses <&wkey;388(4) — Hearsay evidence that accused had struck his wife held inad- - missibie in absence of predicate for impeachment.
On trial for aggravated assault, where prosecutrix, accused’s wife, at the trial denied the assault, the admission of testimony of another witness that prosecutrix had told him that her husband struck her on the occasion in question, and that he had also struck her at other times, without support by a predicate for impeachment, and against the objection that it was hearsay, held error.
Appeal from Gray County Court, John B. Ayres, Judge.
Homer .Dobbs was convicted of aggravated assault, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Hill & Ledbetter; of McLean, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
Conviction is for aggravated assault; punishment fixed at confinement in the county jail for a period of 30 days. The appeal cannot be entertained, for the reason that the record contains no notice of appeal.
The appeal is therefore dismissed.
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