Ward v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case the appellant was found guilty of murder in the first degree and his punishment assessed at death.

There is what purports to be a statement of facts sent up with the transcript, but the same does not bear the approval of the judge trying the case; it does not even bear the signatures of the attorneys for the State or the appellant, nor any agreement that it is a correct statement of the evidence adduced on the trial. It has been held by this court that to be of any validity whatever the statement of facts must be approved and signed by the judge who tried the case,…