Martin v. State

Appellant was convicted of slander and assessed the lowest punishment.

The statement of facts and bills of exceptions were approved and filed about seventy-five days after the term of court at which he was tried had adjourned. Hence they can not be considered.

The only question we can review is the sufficiency of the pleading. The prosecution was had upon a complaint and information, the latter following the former and based thereon.

After the necessary usual allegations in the first and closing parts, the information avers, that on July 1, 1914, "one Joe Martin did then and there orally,…