Court Opinion

ID: 9661489
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Date Created: 2023-08-23 22:40:13.252546+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:14:29.091917
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*113ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
BELCHER, Judge.
Appellant, in his motion for rehearing, insists that his objections to the admission of evidence shown in the statement of facts in question and answer form are properly preserved for review although not indexed therein and should be considered.
Section 3 of Article 759a, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P., Acts 1951, 52nd Leg., p. 819, Ch. 465, provides:
“Sec. 3. The court reporter, in a Statement of Facts in question and answer form, shall prepare as a part thereof an index to the Bills of Exception contained in such Statement of Facts.”
The statement of facts filed herein was approved by appellant’s counsel and it contains no index to bills of exception.
We see no reason to depart from the consistent holdings of this court since the enactment of Art. 759a, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P., to the effect that unless indexed, as required by Sec. 3 of said Art. 759a, informal bills of exception contained in the statement of facts in question and answer form are waived and need not be considered. Driggs v. State, 156 Texas Cr. R. 591, 245 S.W. 2d 244; Greenwood v. State, 157 Texas Cr. Rep. 58, 246 S.W. 2d 191; Martinez v. State, 157 Texas Cr. Rep. 91, 246 S.W. 2d 633; Tucker v. State, 157 Texas Cr. Rep. 259, 247 S.W. 2d 901; Knight v. State, 158 Texas Cr. Rep. 158, 254 S.W. 2d 113.
In the latter case, we suggested that the attorney for the appellant should direct the court reporter in the things he wants indexed so as not to encumber the record with exceptions upon which he does not rely.
Remaining convinced that we correctly decided this cause originally, the appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the Court.