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41 Tex. 639

Vanwey v. State

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1874

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1874-07-01

<p>Appeal from Red River. Tried below before the Hon. John C. Easton.</p>

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Decided 1874-07-01

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Roberts, Chief Justice.

¶1Defendants seek to reverse the judgment upon three grounds contained in the motion for new trial, and also in their assignment of errors, to wit:

¶2“ 1st. The court erred in overruling defendants’ application for a continuance.”

¶3Defendants continued the case at the fall term, 1873, for the testimony of one Lawson, whose residence they did not then know. In February, 1874, they had an attachment issued for him to the sheriff of Bed Eiver county, where they were informed and believed he then resided, which was not served. On the 20th day of October they made another application for continuance, stating their diligence to procure the testimony of said witness to be the procurement of said attachment, without stating that they knew where the witness resided at that term of the court when the trial took place. There was not sufficient *640diligence shown to procure the testimony of this witness, and the court did not err in so ruling.

¶4“2d. The court erred in refusing to charge the jury in writing as required by law, and without the consent of defendants.”

¶5This objection appears only in the motion for new trial, and not by an exception taken at the time of the trial, as required by the code, in order to make it a ground of error. (Pas. Dig., arts. 3064, 3067.)

¶6The judgment entry recites that the court charged the jury, and from that we must presume it to have been done, in a misdemeanor, in a legal manner, unless the contrary is made to appear by a bill of exceptions, or in some way other than in the motion for new trial filed by the defendant.

¶7“3d. The verdict of the jury is contrary to the law and evidence.”

¶8The evidence fully supported the verdict, it being shown that other games than the game of billiards licensed by law were played on the billiard table kept by defendants, and that the amount of the table fees, twenty-five cents, for the game played thereon, was bet, which was paid to defendants, when those who played did not choose to take drinks or cigars. (Pas. Dig., art. 2050.)

¶9The court did not err in overruling the motion for new trial.

¶10Judgment affirmed.

¶11Affirmed.

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