Arbuckle v. State

Appellant insists that if he does not show himself entitled, under the penal statutes, to an order directing the stenographer to make out and file a statement of facts herein, still under Art. 2098, Vernon's Civil Statutes, he is so entitled. While we are of opinion that said article relates only to civil appeals, and has no bearing whatever on statements of fact, if we give to appellant the benefit of any doubt in this regard, we still believe that he wholly fails to bring himself within the rules laid down by the courts in construing said last named article. He did not file his affidavit in…