Case Name: Jack Kaskie v. The State
Court: Texas Courts of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1879
Citations: 7 Tex. Ct. App. 202
Docket Number: 
Parties: Jack Kaskie v. The State.
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Reporter: Texas Court of Appeals Reports
Volume: 7
Pages: 202–203

Head Matter:
Jack Kaskie v. The State.
Practice in the Court of Appeals. — In the absence of a statement of facts, this court will revise the record no further than to ascertain' whether the conviction has been had upon a good indictment, and one which sustains the charge of the court and the verdict of the jury.
Appeal from the District Court of Henderson. Tried below before the Hon. J. C. Robertson.
Under an indictment returned in March, 1875, for the murder of one Tittle, whose given name was unknown to the grand jury, the appellant was tried at the October term, 1879, and was convicted of murder in the second degree, with his punishment assessed at fifteen years in the penitentiary.
No statement of facts or bill of exceptions appears in the record.
No brief for the appellant.
Thomas Ball, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
Clakk, J.
Repeated decisions of this court, as well as of our Supreme Court under former constitutions, have established the rule that in the absence of a statement of facts, on appeal, the errors complained of will not be examined further than to ascertain whether the indictment is sufficient to sustain the charge and the finding of the jury. Davis v. The State, 6 Texas Ct. App. 196 ; Carter v. The State, 5 Texas Ct. App. 458; Longley v. The State, 3 Texas Ct. App. 612; Keef v. The State, 44 Texas, 582; Koontz v. The State, 41 Texas, 570; Barrett v. The State, 25 Texas, 605.
The indictment is drawn in accordance with approved precedents, and sufficiently charges appellant with the offence of murder with express malice. No defects have presented themselves to us in our examination, nor have any been pointed out to us ; and it fully supports a charge of murder in the second degree, the offence of which appellant was found guilty.
The charge of the court presents elaborately and fully the law applicable to cases of murder in the first and second degrees, and no part thereof occurs to us as manifestly erroneous under any state of the evidence.
As the case is presented, we find no error in the judgment, and it is therefore affirmed.
Affirmed.