Case Name: JAMES v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-04-09
Citations: 262 S.W. 500
Docket Number: No. 7639
Parties: JAMES v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 262
Pages: 500–500

Head Matter:
JAMES v. STATE.
(No. 7639.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 9, 1924.
Rehearing Denied June 18, 1924.)
Criminal lav/ <©=>1098 — Statement of facts, not in narrative form, not considered on appeal.
Statement of facts, incorporating all colloquies, objections, and replies between opposing counsel and the court, and which was not in narrative form, held not entitled to consideration on appeal, because not in compliance with statute.
Appeal from District Court, Nacogdoches County; L. D. Guinn, Judge.
David L. James was convicted of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
S. M. Adams and A. H. Moore, all of Na-cogdoches, for appellant.
E. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction is for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, with punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for five years.
We copy the following suggestion from the brief of counsel representing the state:
"The state submits that the statement of facts in this record should not be considered, because it is not prepared in compliance with the terms of the statute. It appears in the statement of facts that evéry objection made by counsel, and every reply of the court to an objection of counsel, was incorporated therein. In fact, all colloquies, objections, and replies between opposing counsel and the court are incorporated therein, and for these reasons the statement of facts is not a narrative statement of facts, and should not be considered."
An examination of the statement of facts reveals that the foregoing criticism^ is well founded. We have had occasion to pass upon similar records from the same court in Jenkins v. State, 93 Tex. Cr. R. 375, 247 S. W. 861, and Fenton v. State, 93 Tex. Cr. R. 366, 248 S. W. 363. Everything said in those opinions is equally applicable to the statement of facts in the present case. With the increased volume of work which this court is called upon to perform, it is unreasonable and impracticable to expect us to pick from a mass of objections made by counsel, and from colloquies between him and the court and opposing counsel, those matters which would be necessary and material in considering the evidence.
For the same reasons given in the two cases above referred to, we must regretfully decline to consider the statement of facts. The only bills of exception raise questions" the materiality of which cannot be appraised by us in the absence of a statement of facts.
It becomes necessary, in this state of the record, to order an affirmance of the judgment.