Case Name: SNITZ v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-04-15
Citations: 272 S.W. 464
Docket Number: No. 8669
Parties: SNITZ v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 272
Pages: 464–465

Head Matter:
SNITZ v. STATE.
(No. 8669.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 15, 1925.
Rehearing Denied June 10, 1925.)
1. Criminal law <&wkey;>l09l(ll) — Bill of exception in question and answer form not considered.
Since Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. 1916, art. 846, requires a bill of exceptions to be in narrative form, a bill in question and answer form, on appeal from conviction for unlawfully acquiring personal property, will not be considered. •
On Motion for Rehearing.
2. Criminal law <&wkey;>!09l (11) — Bill of exceptions in. question and answer form to be considered must be explained by trial judge.
A bill of exceptions in question and answer form will not be considered, unless it contains statement from trial judge that such form was necessary to explain point involved or its origin.
Commissioners’ Decision.
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; Eelix D. Robertson, Judge.
W. Snitz was convicted of unlawfully acquiring personal property, with fraudulent intent, by -giving a check, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Taylor & Irwin and Baskett & De Lee, all of Dallas, for-appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State!

Opinion:
BAKER, J.
Appellant was charged by indictment in the criminal district court No. 2 of Dallas county with unlawfully acquiring certain personal property in the way of dry goods belonging to ,C. H. Dollison, with fraudulent intent, by giving and drawing a certain check upon the Mercantile Bank & Trust Company of Dallas, Tex., and convicted upon said indictment in said court on the 5th day of October, 1923, and his punishment assessed at two years' confinement in the penitentiary, from which conviction and judgment he has appealed to this court, and assigned errors as set out in his hills of exceptions Nos. 1 to 8, inclusive.
The appellant has not favored this court with any brief citing us to any authorities sustaining his contentions as set out in his bills.
We have carefully examined, the record in this case, and find most of the bills of exception are prepared in question and answer form. Article 846, Vernon's Ann. Code Cr. Proc. 1916, explicitly declares:
"Provided, that such stenographer's report when carried into the statement of facts or bills of exception shall be condensed so as not to contain the questions and answers, except where, in the opinion of the judge, such questions and answers may be necessary in order to elucidate the fact or question involved."
Under this statute this court has repeatedly held that it cannot and will not consider bills of exception in question and answer form. We find no error in the remaining bills of exception.
The court's general charge, together with charge No. 2 given at the request of appellant, seems to cover all phases of this case.
Railing to find any error in the record, we affirm the judgment of the lower court.
PER OURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.
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