Legal Opinion

Steed v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided June 23, 1926No. 10295PublishedCited by 3 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is forgery, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

No statement of facts accompanies the record. There are four bills of exceptions. In one complaint is made of the failure to instruct the jury that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. The others relate to the introduction of the evidence.

In the absence of a statement of facts the sufficiency of the evidence must be presumed. Nothing appears in the bills of exceptions which enables us to determine, in the absence of the facts, that error was…

2Cited by3 opinions

  1. Colbert v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1931
  2. Oliver v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1933
  3. Lee v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1933

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