Case Name: A. C. Castle v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-04-22
Citations: 101 Tex. Crim. 142
Docket Number: No. 8910
Parties: A. C. Castle v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 101
Pages: 142–144

Head Matter:
APRIL, 1925.
A. C. Castle v. The State.
No. 8910.
Delivered April 22, 1925.
Rehearing granted June 17, 1925.
1. — False Swearing — Statement of Facts, Not Certified — Cannot he Considered.
Where the purported statement of facts is not signed by either counsel or the judge trying the case, it will not be considered, and so also of bills of exception.
ON BEHEAKING
2. — Same—Statement of Facts — Denied to Appellant — Cause Reversed.
Where appellant used due diligence to secure the approval by the trial judge of his statement of facts and bills of exception, but on account of the continued absence of the judge from his office until after the limit of the time for filing of statement of tacts and bills of exception, the cause must be reversed by reason of appellant having thus been denied his right of appeal. Following Shaffer v. State, 58 Tex. Crim. Rep. 469 and other cases.
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas County. Tried below before the Hon. Felix D. Robertson, Judge.
Appeal from a conviction of false swearing; penalty, three years in the state penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
.Roger Lewis, for appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Attorney, and Grover G. Morris, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is false swearing; punishment fixed at confinement in the 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.
Affirmed.