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3 Tex. Ct. App. 7

King v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided July 1, 1877

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1877-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Broaddus. The indictment was apparently founded on the act of May 19, 1873, “to prevent horse-racing in certain places.” It charged the appellant and one Josh Orreius with unlawfully running a horse-race along a street in the town of Caldwell. Both defendants were tried and found guilty at the November term, 1875, of the court, and a fine of $25 assessed against each of them. King asked a new trial, which was refused, and he appeals.

Decided 1877-07-01

Winkler, J.

¶1The only error assigned in the record is the overruling of the defendant’s (King’s) motion for a new trial. The ground set out in the motion is that the verdict is contrary to law and the evidence.

¶2We are of opinion there is no error in this ruling of *8the court. The verdict cannot be said to be without evidence. But one witness testified for the state as to the transaction.

¶3It is objected, for the first time, in this court that the indictment is insufficient in that it is not charged that the defendants ran together.

¶4This objection not having been noticed in any manner in the court below, either at the trial, in the motion for new trial, or in arrest of judgment, and not being assigned as error, we think, the case being a misdemeanor, the objection comes too late, when made for the first time in this court. Parker v. The State, 26 Texas, 204.

¶5The judgment of the court below is affirmed.

¶6Affirmed.

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