Northcutt v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of rape on his sister-in-law, a girl alleged to be under fifteen years of age, and his punishment assessed at fourteen years in the penitentiary.

The first ground in the motion for new trial complains of the action of the court in overruling his application for a continuance. As -no bill of exceptions was reserved to the action of the court in so doing, at least none is copied in the record before us, the matter is not presented in a way we would be authorized to review the action of the court in so doing. Bowman v. State, 40 Texas, 9; Nelson v. State, 1…