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9 Tex. 490

Ashworth v. State

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1853

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1853-07-01

The appellant was indicted and convicted upon the following charge : “That Henderson Ashworth, being a free person of color, “ of African descent, laborer, and Lititia Stewart, late of said county, spinstress, “ on the first day of April, and on divers other days and times thereafter, and- “ before the finding this bill, to wit, in the county aforesaid, did then and there “ live together iu fornication, contrary to the statute,” &e. The record showed that the defendant asked…

Decided 1853-07-01

. LIPSCOMB, J.

¶1"In this case there was a: verdict and judgment against tlie appellant on an indictment for an offense known to our laws. There is no error apparent upon the record, and there is no statement of facts.

¶2The record shows that a charge of tlie court was asked to be given to the jury and refused; but from the want of a statement of the facts it is impossible for us to say whether the court erred or not in such refusal. It may have been wholly irrelevant to the facts in proof, and a mere abstract proposition. The bill of exceptions should have shown the pertinancy of the charge asked, or it Should have been shown by the statement of the facts proven. The judgment must therefore be affirmed.

¶3Judgment affirmed.

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