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25 Tex. Ct. App. 73

Ex parte Dick

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided February 25, 1888

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1888-02-25

TTarf.as Corpus on appeal from the county court of Rains. Tried below before the Hon. W. M. Lamb, county judge. The applicant being held under a warrant charging him with the violation of the “local option’.’ law, sought his discharge by the writ of habeas corpus. This being refused, he appealed to this court. The transcript brings up no sufficient statement of the facts.

Decided 1888-02-25

Hurt, Judge.

¶1The applicant (appellant here) was arrested under a capias for violating the local option law in precinct number one, Rains county. He sued out a writ of habeas corpus •before W. M. Lamb, county judge of said county, and upon a *74hearing was remanded to custody; from which order and the judgment thereon he appeals to this court.

Opinion delivered February 25, 1888.

¶2He alleges numerous reasons why said local option election should be held void. Hone of the grounds relied upon can be considered in the absence of a statement of facts. That which purports to be a statement of the facts of the case is agreed to by counsel for applicant and the State, but is not approved by the judge who tried the case. A statement of facts may be agreed to by counsel, but, to be a legal statement, it must be approved, by the presiding judge.

¶3There being no ruling of the court in the record which can be revised by this court without a statement of facts, the judgment must be affirmed.

¶4Affirmed.

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