Case Name: MEEKS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-06-01
Citations: 233 S.W. 838
Docket Number: No. 6298
Parties: MEEKS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 233
Pages: 838–838

Head Matter:
MEEKS v. STATE.
(No. 6298.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 1, 1921.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 12, 1921.)
1. Criminal law <@==>1099(10) — Statement of ■facts not signed by attorneys or approved by trial .judge not considered.
Portion of record purporting to be a statement of facts, but neither signed by the attorneys nor approved by the trial court, cannot be considered.
2. Criminal law <@==1091 (4) — Bill of exceptions ' complaining of answer to question, without giving answer or disclosing name of witness, held insufficient.
Bill of exceptions complaining of action of court in admitting answer to question, without showing the answer or stating name of witness, field insufficient for consideration.
Appeal from Criminal District Court, Dallas County; C. A. Pippen, Judge.
Porter Meeks was convicted of robbery, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
A. U. Puckett, of Dallas, for appellant..
R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, J.
Conviction was for robbery. Punishment was assessed at 25 years in the penitentiary.
No statement of facts which can be considered by this court accompanies the record. We find on file a question and answer transcript of the evidence, certified to by the official reporter, but even this is not certified to by attorneys or by the trial judge; even if it were we could not consider it. Section-601, p. 309, Branch's Annotated Penal Code. There is in the record what purports to be a statement of facts, but it is neither signed by the attorneys nor approved by the trial judge, and hence the same cannot be considered. If we were permitted to consider the same, the facts stated therein are sufficient to warrant the conviction in this case, beyond question.
Only one bill of exceptions appears in the' record, which is here set out in full:
"Be it remembered that upon the trial of the above entitled and numbered cause, the state introduced the following testimony, to wit: 'I will ask you if you were arrested on March 18, 1914, at Tulsa, Okl., charged with highway robbery?' Which testimony was objected to by the defendant at the time it was offered, upon the following grounds, to wit, because said testimony was immaterial, irrelevant, and improper, and tended to inflame and prejudice the minds of the.jurors against the defendant. And the court overruled said objections and admitted said testimony, to which decision of the court the defendant then excepted, and tenders this bill of exceptions, and asks that the same be signed and filed as a part of the record in this cause."
It will be observed that the hill fails to show any answer to the question, yet it appears to be a complaint as to the admission of testimony. This court does not know who the witness was to whom the question was propounded, whether the accused or some other witness. It is scarcely necessary to add that in no respect does the bill comply with the requirements of the law. We refer only to the general rules with reference to bills of exceptions as given in Branch's Annotated Penal Code; § 207, etc.
The record discloses no fundamental errors.
Judgment is affirmed.