Ritchey v. State

OPINION

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is statutory rape; the punishment, twenty years.

Trial was had after January 1, 1966, and governed by the provisions of the 1965, Vernon’s Ann.Code of Criminal Procedure.

The record on appeal consists of a transcript of the proceedings in the cause certified to by the clerk and a separate statement of facts of the evidence adduced upon the trial, bearing the certificate of the official court reporter and approved by counsel for the state and the appellant and also by the trial judge.

Such record is not in compliance with the requirements of Art. 40.09 of the…