Court Opinion

ID: 3978512
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:35:49.441099+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:09.890871
License: Public Domain

In a motion for rehearing and as a part thereof appellant asks for a certiorari to compel the trial court to approve and order filed certain bills of exception which appear in the record without having been filed in the court below and without the approval of the trial judge. This court does not make the law but earnestly tries to ascertain if same has been followed in the trial of each case coming before it. In this case it appears that the District Court of Cooke County convened on October 29, 1922, and under the statute could continue in session but eight weeks. This manifestly would require the court to adjourn not later than December 24th. Our law gives thirty days thereafter for the filing of bills of exception. An examination of the bills found in this record show that they were prepared and submitted to the trial court for approval as of date the 22nd of February 1923. This would necessarily under the statute make them too late, and even if signed by the trial judge as of that date and filed as of that date, this court would be powerless to consider them. Nor does this court by certiorari compel trial judges to approve bills of exception. It thus appearing that nothing could come from the granting of the writ of certiorari or the rehearing herein, appellant's application for both will be denied.
Writ denied.