Court Opinion

ID: 3907135
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:36:26.530347+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:31.310480
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The judgment was affirmed at a former day of this term, and is now before us on rehearing. In the original opinion we held we could not consider the statement of facts in the absence of an order authorizing the same to be filed after the adjournment of the term of court. Attached to appellant's motion for rehearing is the affidavit of Hon. W.H. Pope, the judge presiding at the trial of this case, showing the following facts in reference to said order: That on the 31st day of October, 1903, motion for new trial was duly presented in the case of the State of *Page 557 
Texas v. Sam Sampson. The same, after argument, was overruled; and defendant gave notice of appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals of the State of Texas. That defendant's counsel asked that an order be entered granting defendant twenty days after adjournment in which to file statement of facts and bill of exceptions; and the court granted the order, and told counsel he would enter it; that the judge was then on the bench, with the motion docket before him; and while counsel was present began the making of the entry on the docket of said order; that he made a partial entry of such request on the docket, but on account of some interference, as he verily believes, he omitted to enter the order that defendant be allowed twenty days in which to make out and file statement of facts and bill of exceptions; that the fault to so make said entry was purely the judge's fault, and the failure to enter the same upon the docket was the act of omission of the court. By the acts of the Twenty-eighth Legislature (sec. 1 p. 32), it is provided, "That parties to causes tried in the district and county courts of this State may, by having the order to that effect entered on the docket, be granted twenty days after the adjournment of the term of which said cause may be tried, to present and have approved and filed the statement of facts and bill of exceptions." We hold that, under this statute, it is the imperative duty of counsel for appellant to see that said order is entered by the judge on the docket; and inadvertence or neglect on the part of the judge will not excuse appellant's counsel for the failure to have this order so entered. Under the old article in reference to filing statement of facts after adjournment of the term, we held it was the duty of counsel for appellant to see that the ten-day order was properly entered of record. Smith v. State, 53 S.W. Rep., 632; Brown v. State, 44 S.W. Rep., 172; Denton v. State,42 Tex. Crim. 428. And where there was a failure to so enter said order we would not consider the statement of facts. We see no occasion, under the article now under consideration, of changing the rule; but still hold it is the duty of appellant's counsel to see the order is so entered. Without the facts, which we are not authorized to consider, we see no reason for changing the original opinion. The motion for rehearing is accordingly overruled.
Motion overruled.