Holmes v. State

BETHEA, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of murder in the District Court of Bowie County and sentenced to ten years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

There being no bills of exceptions in the record, this leaves the action of the trial court in overruling the appellant’s motion for a new trial, based on the ground of newly discovered evidence, the only question to be reviewed.

The record discloses that the evidence upon which the trial judge based his decision in overruling the motion for new trial is not brought before this court either by a bill of exceptions or statement of facts. The…