McHenry v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant, a woman, was convicted of murder with malice in that she killed Emma Jean Blocker, and was sentenced to serve twenty-five years in the penitentiary.

The statement of facts herein appears with the following qualification of the trial judge appended thereto:

“This statement of facts was filed by the attorney for the defendant with the Clerk of the District Court of Hays County, Texas, on June 29, 1940, without ever having been submitted to the District Attorney or to this Court, for approval, and the same was for the first time presented to this Court for approval on this…