Case Name: CASTLE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-04-22
Citations: 274 S.W. 576
Docket Number: No. 8910
Parties: CASTLE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 274
Pages: 576–576

Head Matter:
CASTLE v. STATE.
(No. 8910.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 22, 1925.
Rehearing Granted June 17, 1925.)
On Motion for Rehearing.
Criminal law ¡®=»1092(I4), 1099 (,11) — Conviction reversed, where appellant unable, through no fault, to get record authenticated.
Conviction of false swearing was reversed and cause remanded, where bills of exception and statement of facts were unverified, and it was made to appear that lack of verification was not due to fault or laches of appellant but was due to absence of regular judge and want 'of authority of special judge to sign statements of facts or approve bills of exception.
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; Felix D. Robertson, Judge.
A. C. Castle was convicted of false swearing, and he appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
Roger Lewis, of Dallas, for appellant.
Shelby S. Cox, Cr. Dist. Atty., of Dallas, Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
The offense is false swearing; punishment fixed at confinement in tile penitentiary for a period of three years.
We have no brief for the appellant. The indictment appears regular. A number of purported bills of exception are copied in the record. None of them, however, are certified, nor is the purported statement of facts signed by either counsel or the judge trying the case.
The facts heard not being before us, nor the rulings of the court authenticated so' that they can be considered, the judgment is affirmed.