Case Name: STRICKLAND v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1924-05-21
Citations: 262 S.W. 75
Docket Number: No. 82321
Parties: STRICKLAND v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 262
Pages: 75–76

Head Matter:
STRICKLAND v. STATE.
(No. 82321.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 21, 1924.)
I Criminal law <§==>621 (2) — Court may direct order of trial of coindictees, each filing severance affidavit.
When two parties, jointly or separately indicted for offenses growing out of same transaction, each file severance affidavit, the court may direct the order in which they shall be tried, and neither may complain.-
2. Witnesses <§=>236(1) — Defendant’s questions to witness held obectionable.
Defendant’s question to witness, beginning “Now, Mr. Witness, we want to get this in the minds of the jury,” and another question, “Would you swear to a lie for this boy or not?” held objectionable.
Appeal from District Court, Johnson County ; Irwin T. Ward, Judge,
Murray Strickland was convicted of transporting intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
■ Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Johnson county of transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
We have no brief before us giving us the benefit of appellant's views. There are 17 bills of exception in the record, each one of which has been carefully examined. When two parties, jointly or separately indicted, for offenses growing out of the same transaction, each file affidavit for severance, it is in accord with our statute that the court direct the order in which they shall be tried, and neither is m an attitude to complain.
Manifestly the question asked by appellant, which begins in this form, "Now, Mr. Witness, we want to get this in the minds of the jury," is objectionable. A question by appellant to one of his witnesses, "Would you swear to a lie for this boy or not?" is open to objection. We need not discuss the admissibility of the fact that witnesses introduced by either party may have their credibility attacked by proof of the fact that they are under, indictment for felonies.
A number of bills of exception appearing in this record are in question and answer , form, and some are mulifarious. One of them presents appellant's objection to the form of an objection made by the state's counsel to a matter inquired about, and one is to testimony as to the difference between the odor of corn whisky and denatured alcohol. A number of the bills are to complaints made by appellant in his motion for new trial of matters raised for the first time in the motion for new trial, and which should have been raised during the progress of the trial, if raised at all.
No good purpose would be served by referring to the various bills of exception further. None of them have been overlooked. None of them present any reversible error. An affirmance will be ordered.
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