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83 Tex. Crim. 290

203 S.W 953

Williams v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 17, 1918

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1918-04-17

<p>Murder—Death. Penalty—Motion for Hew Trial.</p> <p>Where, upon an appeal from a conviction of murder assessing the death penalty, the two grounds of the motion for new trial relating to questions off fact were in no way verified, the judgment must be affirmed in the absence of aJ statement of facts and bills of exception.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1948

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Decided 1918-04-17

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DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

¶1 This is a death penalty conviction! for murder. The record is before us without statement of facts or bill of exceptions. The two grounds of the motion for new trial relate to questions of fact, but are in no way verified. The matters are stated! as grounds in the motion for new trial, but there is nothing in the record to support either ground, the facts bearing upon these questions not having been prepared and sent with the record. i

¶2 The judgment, therefore, will be affirmed.

¶3 Affirmed.

¶4 PREHDERGAST, Judge, absent.

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