Case Name: ISHMAEL v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1925-05-27
Citations: 272 S.W. 794
Docket Number: No. 9046
Parties: ISHMAEL v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 272
Pages: 794–795

Head Matter:
ISHMAEL v. STATE.
(No. 9046.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 27, 1925.)
Criminal law i&wkey; 1098 —Statement of facts in form of question and answer stricken out on appeal.
Vernon’s Ann. Code Cr. Proc. 1916, art. 846, requires statement of facts to be put in narrative form. In an appeal from conviction for unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor, held that such a statement appearing in form of question and answer should be stricken off' the records.
Commissioners’ Decision.
Appeal from District Court, Lamar County; R. L. Lattimore, Special Judge.
Jess Ishmael was convicted of unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor,- and he appeals.
Affirmed.
Sturgeon & Wiygul, of Paris, for appellant.
Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
BAKER, J.
The appellant was indicted and convicted in the district court of Lamar county for unlawfully manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment assessed at three years' confinement in the penitentiary.
The state's attorney with this court has moved to strike out the statement of facts because same is in question and answer form, and in violation of the statute which requires the statement of facts and bills of exception to be prepared in narrative form. The record discloses that the statement of facts is largely made up of question and answers and statements of the court and attorneys interested in the trial of the case. Article 846, Vernon's O. O. P., requires statement of facts to be in narrative form, and this court has repeatedly held that under'said article it is not authorized to consider a statement of facts in question and answer form. Jacobs v. State, 92 Tex. Cr. R. 253, 242 S. W. 232; James v. State, 97 Tex. Cr. R. 612, 262 S. W. 500. We are therefore of the opinion that the motion should be granted and the statement of facts stricken out.
After the elimination of the statement of facts in this cáse, there appear to be no other errors of record which would authorize this court to reverse the judgment of the trial court. We are therefore of the opinion that the judgment of the trial court should be, and same is hereby, affirmed.
_ PEE CUEIAM. 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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