State v. Suttles
State v. Suttles
Opinion of the Court
The defendant was convicted of the crime of rape, and sentenced to a term of ten years in the state penitentiary, and has appealed, and presents his case in this court upon the record of conviction commonly designated the judgment-roll. The first two assignments of error are general ones, and call for no specific consideration here. The third, fourth and fifth assignments of error cover, in fact, all the grounds of complaint presented by appellant, and are sufficiently specific to require our special attention. The third and fourth will be considered together. The record in this ease was certified up to this court under section 8051, Revised Statutes, and appears to contain the entire record as defined and required by section 7996, Revised Statutes. The record as presented to this court does not show
The fifth and last assignment of error is that the court failed to give such instructions as were necessary and applicable to the case in order for the jury to properly understand the law concerning the crime of which defendant was charged. The attorney general, however, insists that since the defendant failed to except to any of the instructions given at the time of the trial, and failed to incorporate his exceptions in a bill of exceptions, that he cannot be heard at this time to complain. Section 7946, Revised Statutes, provides as follows: “When written charges have been presented, given, or refused, the questions presented in such charges need not be excepted to or embodied in a bill of exceptions, but the written charges with the indorsements showing the action of the court form part of the record, and any error
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- STATE v. E. L. SUTTLES
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- Criminal Law — Right to Challenge Juror — Failure to Admonish Jury — Presumption of Regularity of Proceedings in Court of Record — Instructions by Court — Exceptions to Instructions must be Settled — Record on Appeal from Judgment. 1. While the statute (Rev. Stats., see. 7826) requires that a defendant be instructed by the court or by some one under the court’s direction of the right to challenge an individual juror, and that if he desires to do so he must exercise the right before the jury is sworn, still the fact that such duty was performed is not required to be shown by the reeord which constitutes the judgment-roll under sections 7996 and 8051, Revised Statutes. 2. Under section 7881, Revised Statutes, it is made the duty of the trial court to admonish the jury at each adjournment of the court “that it is their duty not to converse among themselves or with anyone else on any subject connected with the trial, or to form or express any opinion thereon until the case is finally submitted to them,” but such fact is not required to be shown by .the reeord or judgment-roll defined and provided for in sections 7996 and 8051, Revised Statutes. 3. All presumptions are in favor of the regularity of the proceedings of courts of reeord, and in the absence of any showing to establish the fact as to whether or not the court has complied with the requirements of law in course of the trial, the presumption .will at once arise that the law has been complied with. 4. Upon appeal from the judgment alone, no objection or exception can be properly considered that does not arise upon and appear from the record or judgment-roll as defined by section 7996, Eevised Statutes. 5. Under the provisions of section 7946, Eevised Statutes, all written charges presented and requested are deemed excepted to as a matter of law, and it is not required that any exception be taken thereto, or that the same be embodied in a bill of exceptions. 6. Under section 7940, Eevised Statutes, a defendant is required to take exceptions to any and all instructions given by the court on its own motion that he deems to be prejudicial to him or contrary to law, and such exceptions must be embodied in a bill of exceptions in order to be reviewed on appeal. 7. Since all instructions requested by either party or given by the court on its own motion become a part of the record or judgment-roll, it is unnecessary to incorporate any instructions in the bill of exceptions, provided the instruction excepted to is properly identified and referred to in the bill of exceptions. (Syllabus by the court.)