Case Name: Jeff Byrd v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1911-11-01
Citations: 63 Tex. Crim. 487
Docket Number: No. 1354
Parties: Jeff Byrd v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 63
Pages: 487–488

Head Matter:
Jeff Byrd v. The State.
No. 1354.
Decided November 1, 1911.
Rehearing denied November 29, 1911.
Aggravated Assault—Statement of Facts—Filing—Transcript—Bills of Exception.
Statement of facts in the County Court must be filed not later than twenty days after adjournment, and must be contained in the transcript; bills of exception must likewise be filed within the same time. In' the absence of a statement of facts, the correctness of the court’s charges is presumed.
Appeal from the County Court of Comanche. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Beiger.
Appeal from a conviction -of aggravated assault; penalty, a fine of $100.
The opinion states the case.
A. B. Haworth, for appellant.
Cited Dobbs v. State, 55 Texas Crim. Rep., 483, 113 S. W. Rep., 921.
G. B. Lane, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
The indictment charges two grounds of aggravation, first, with a deadly iveapon by shooting at Shot Adams, and second, with premeditated design and by means calculated to inflict great bodily injury upon the said Shot Adams, that is, by the use of -a gun, etc. Appellant' was convicted -of aggravated -assault, and his punishment assessed at a fine of one hundred dollars.
The case was tried in the County Court, which adjourned on 25th of March, 1911. The statement of facts is not embodied in the transcript, but is sent up in an independent document. This was filed on April 24, nearly thirty days after the -adjournment of the eou-rt. M-otion is made by the Assistant Attorney-General to strike out the statement of facts because the court was without authority to file the statement of facts after twenty days subsequent to adjournment of the court. This motion is well taken. The statement of facts in the County Court must be filed within twenty days, or rather not later than twenty days after adjournment of court, -as must be the bills of exception. The bills of exception were also filed on the 24th of April. This -appeal, therefore, will be decided without reference to the statement of fact's -and bills of exception. Eliminating these, all the errors pertaining' to the admission and rejection of evidence, and rulings of the court thereupon, and charges given and special charges refused, can not be intelligently reviewed. Without the statement -of facts it will he practically impossible for us to consider these matters. The charge may have been entirely" applicable and correct with reference to the case as made before the jury, and in the absence of the statement of facts, this presumption will obtain, not only so as to the charges given, but -as to those refused.
[Rehearing denied November 29, 1911.—Reporter.]
Finding no reversible error in the record as presented, the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.