Court Opinion

ID: 9777482
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 20:12:48.389681+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:54.766367
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On Petition to Rehear
Mr. Justice White.
A courteous petition to rehear has been filed in which it is contended (1) that the trial judge did not advise the defendant at the time the motion for a new trial was made that the same had to be filed in writing within thirty days; (2) that this Court did not consider the charge of the trial court because it was not made a part of the bill of exceptions and is contained only in the technical record when the Court did consider the instructions of the trial judge in the case of Clark v. State, 214 Tenn. 555, 381 S.W.2d 898 (1964), when the charge in that case was only a part of the technical record; and (3) that there is no showing in the record that Rule 3 of the trial court was ever spread on the minutes of the court or published.
Rule 3 of the court did require that motions for new trials be filed in writing within thirty days from the rendition of the verdict and the entering of the judgment thereon. Whether the minutes reflect that the trial judge made a statement to this effect to counsel for the defendant or to the defendant, is of no consequence. This was a Rule of court and it has to be complied with.
In the case of Clark v. State supra, this Court had before it the technical record only, and in the technical *349■ record the clerk had, by inadvertence, inserted the charge of the conrt. We merely said in regard thereto that:
The charge of the court is in the technical record, and from it we reach the conclusion that the facts were heard pro and con on the matter before the jury returned its verdict, as above indicated.
At no place in the opinion did we approve the filing of the charge as a part of the technical record.
It has been the established law of this Court for many, many years, as set out in our original opinion, that the charge of the court is not a proper part of the technical record and any indication in the opinion of Clark v. State, supra, that the charge is a part of the technical record, was a mere inadvertence and oversight on our part. Our original opinion makes it abundantly clear that we cannot consider the charge of the court unless it be incorporated in the bill of exceptions, the proper place for it to be bound.
In regard to the third contention that there was no showing that Eule 3 had ever been spread on the minutes of the court or published, we call attention to the order of the court which recited that Eule 3 had been published and since there is no proof to the contrary, it must be presumed to be correct. We have many cases holding that where there was no record of the evidence considered by the trial court in reaching a conclusion, we have always engaged in the presumption that the ruling was correct since there was no evidence to the contrary appearing. Eatherly v. State, 118 Tenn. 371, 101 S.W. 187 (1906); Odeneal v. State, 128 Tenn. 60, 157 S.W. 419 (1913).
*350For the foregoing reasons, the petition to rehear is denied.
Burnett, Chief Justice, and Dyer, Holmes and Chatpin, Justices, concur.