Bruce v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of robbery, and his punishment assessed at five years confinement in the State penitentiary.

Appellant files a motion praying for a writ of certiorari to perfect the record, claiming that his amended motion for a new trial had been omitted from the transcript. As he accompanies his motion with a certified copy of the amended motion for a new trial, we will consider it as a part of the record, and pass thereon, without the necessity of having it brought up by certiorari.

The first ground complains that the court erred in not postponing this trial until the…