Sara v. State
Sara v. State
Opinion of the Court
Among other grounds it is assigned as error that the trial judge neither signed the statement of facts agreed to by counsel for both parties, nor made up such statement and filed it in the record, as required by Article 1378 of the Revised
Taking the agreed statement of facts made up by counsel as a fair summary of the evidence adduced on the trial, this court feels constrained to say that the allegations of the indictment are not met by the proof. The appellant is charged with keeping a disorderly house, and the reputation of the place is relied on to sustain the charge. Common reputation is a legitimate source from which to draw proof to fix the character of the house, but the evidence must directly connect the person charged with the offense committed. The testimony in this case goes to show that the reputation of the house was established by another proprietor, and at an anterior time.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded, because of the errors indicated.
Reversed and remanded.
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- 1. Practice—Statement oe Pacts.—The failure of the trial judge to sign the statement of facts agreed upon by both parties to the case, or to sign and file with the clerk a statement of the facts compiled by himself,' deprives the.appellant of a statement of facts without fault on his part, and is reversible error. 2. Disorderly House—Evidence.—The character of a house as a disorderly house may be established by common reputation, but the proof must directly implicate the person charged with keeping it, in order to convict. See the opinion for the substance of evidence held insufficient to support a conviction for beeping a disorderly house.