Court Opinion

ID: 9834103
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:17:43.136416+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:11.603941
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On Motion for Rehearing. •
We adhere to the original disposition made of this case. However difficult it might be, in the light of appellant’s earnest argument in his motion for a rehearing, to conceive any legal support of the action of the lower court assigned as ei-ror, ‘yet it involved exclusively the court’s charge and the admissibility of evidence. And without a statement of facts to guide us in testing the correctness of the charge, as applied to the evidence, and revealing the evidence, the admission of which is assigned as error, we are not privileged to look outside the record for these essentials to a consideration of the assignments of error; but we are to pre-' sume the judgment appealed from was a proper one.
For the sake of absolute accuracy of statement, and not because it is of any other consequence, we probably ought to modify the statement in our opinion to the effect that the trial judge did not sign one of the bills of exceptions, but expressly declined to- approve it. An ex parte affidavit of appellant was made a part of the sixth assignment of error contained in appellant’s motion for a new trial. This affidavit appears to have been made a part of the bill of exceptions also. Appended to this bill are remarks of the judge relating to it. These remarks, signed by him, are introduced in the following language:
“This bill of exceptions is signed and approved with the following qualification and explanation:
“I decline to sign the bill with the ex parte affidavit of W. A. Robinson, dated May-10, 1919, attached thereto. * * * ”
This language certainly shows an express disapproval of the bill. Furthermore, the entire statement of the trial judge preceding his signature is, in effect, an essential contradiction of the bill, independent of the affidavit.
It is clear that the assignments of error cannot be reviewed for the reasons stated 'in the opinion affirming the case; and, accordingly, the motion for a rehearing is denied.