Court Opinion

ID: 3926807
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:52:51.706103+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:58.668997
License: Public Domain

At a previous term of this court the judgment herein was affirmed. After the adjournment of the term, which occurred the latter part of June, appellant filed a motion for rehearing, because appellant has been deprived of a statement of facts and bills of exception by the trial judge without fault or neglect on the part of appellant or his counsel, and appellant represents to this court that he thought his attorney made and prepared a statement of facts, which was agreed to by the county attorney on the 27th of October, 1914, and which statement of facts and bills of exception were immediately presented to the trial judge with the request to approve same, or prepare a statement himself, which said judge failed and refused to do, though requested to approve the same and return same to appellant's attorney so they could be filed with the clerk. Appellant further says that the trial judge arbitrarily held in his possession the statement of facts and bills of exception until after the time allowed for filing same, and refused to approve same. Therefore, he asks this court to consider the matter. This statement is signed by counsel for appellant, but there is no affidavit made. This application is not sworn to. In other words, it is not sufficiently presented so that this court can act upon it. The judge makes no certificate, and in fact the unsworn statement by counsel is all that is presented to the court with reference to it. Under this showing we are not authorized to consider the statements in the motion, and in order to do so they must be verified in some way. The motion for rehearing, therefore, will be overruled.
Overruled.