Caldwell v. State

HAWKINS, Judge. —

Defendant is under conviction for manslaughter based upon the killing of his wife, Ida Caldwell, and his punishment fixed at five years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The record is before us without a statement of facts. No bill of exception appears save that to the charge of the court. In this condition of the record we can not review the question arising in overruling defendant’s application for continuance. Even had there been exception reserved to the ruling we would not be able to pass intelligently upon it in the absence of the evidence.

Defendant interposed a plea of…