Bazanno v. State
Bazanno v. State
Opinion of the Court
In this case appellant was convicted in the district court of Orange county on May 21, 1909, on an indictment charging him with murder, of the offense of manslaughter,- and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of three years. The evidence showed a killing utterly without excuse, and there seems to be no occasion or necessity to set out here the facts. The defense relied on was that of insanity. There are no bills of exception in the record, and the motion for new trial raises but few questions, all of which we will now notice.
1. The first is that the court erred in permitting the witness Mrs. Albert Dunlap, over the objection of defendant, to testify as to the movements and actions of the deceased, Denny Harris, on the day of the hom
2. The next two grounds of the motion for new trial are in substance that the court failed to charge the jury that the judgment of lunacy introduced in evidence was prima facie evidence of the recitals therein contained, which recitals it was incumbent upon the state to rebut by legal evidence, and that the court erred in failing to charge the jury the presumption arising from said judgment of insanity; the legal presumption for said adjudication being that insanity continued until such presumption was overcome by legal evidence. It becomes unnecessary to pass on these contentions and issues, for the reason that by reference to the statement of facts we find that no judgment pronouncing appellant insane was admitted in evidence. On this question the record shows the following: Mr. O. D. Goodman, the district clerk of Orange county, was introduced, who said in substance that he was in possession of the records of the county court of Orange county, and was in possession of the records of July 3, 1905, of the county court, which records he then had with him. The following is then the literal statement of the record as contained 'in the statement of facts: “This is a case wherein Albert Bazanno is the defendant. It is found on page 58 of Book G, which reads as follows: ‘State of Texas v. Albert Bazanno. Orange County. July 1st, 1905,’ etc. For copy of said record, see exhibit attached hereto, marked ‘A,’ and made a part of this record on page-.” There is some general reference to the fact that appellant had been in the asylum and had been discharged therefrom; but, except as found in the above, there is no evidence of any judgment of lunacy against him. We think, in this condition of the record, it cannot be held that we should reverse the case on account of the failure of the court to charge the jury in respect thereto.
3. The only other ground of the assignment relates to the misconduct of the jury. This is not verified by any bill of exceptions, nor do the facts in respect thereto appear in the record. In this condition of the record it is evident that we cannot review this question.
Finding no error in the record, it is ordered that the judgment of conviction be, and the same is hereby, in all things affirmed.
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