Court Opinion

ID: 7809723
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-07 17:11:21.853059+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:30:26.191042
License: Public Domain

HUMPHREYS, J. Appellant was indicted for murder in the first degree and tried and convicted of murder in the second degree in the Desha Circuit Court. His punishment was fixed at ten years in the State penitentiary and judgment rendered accordingly. An appeal from the judgment of conviction has been duly prosecuted to this court. The assignments of error set out in the motion for a new trial challenge (1) the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict and judgment; (2) the refusal of the court to give, respectively, instructions 1 and 2 requested by appellant. Errors of this character can be brought into the record by bill of exceptions only. It is stated in the purported bill of exceptions that appellant was allowed sixty days in which to file his bill of exceptions, but the judgment record itself shows to the contrary. According to the judgment record, appellant was allowed only thirty days in which to file his bill of exceptions after September 4, 1918. The purported bill of exceptions was not filed until October 29, 1918. The rule heretofore announced by this court is to the effect that, “where the entries in the record are inconsistent with the statement contained in the bill of exceptions, the former shall prevail over the latter.” Hixon v. Weaver, 9 Ark. 133; Crump et al. v. Starke, 23 Ark. 131. Under this well established rule, we must treat this case as if the record contained no bill of exceptions whatever. For that reason the judgment is affirmed.