Odom v. State
Odom v. State
Opinion of the Court
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Denton county of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
The record seems to satisfactorily show the manufacture of intoxicating liquor at the house occupied by appellant. The evidence for the state and the appellant was in conflict, but that offered in support of the conclusion of guilt is deemed sufficient.
“Geptlemen of the Jury: For the defendant to be indirectly interested in the manufacture of liquor so as to be guilty of any offense you must find and believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that, though personally not present at the time an.d place where said intoxicating liquor was manufactured, he had some interest therein, and if you have a reasonable doubt of his having some interest therein you will find the defendant not guilty.”
It is apparent from an inspection of the court’s main charge that after this special instruction was presented the court inserted it in the main charge as paragraph 2a. Having been requested by appellant as above stated, he would be in no position to except to the court’s action in giving it whether as a part of the main charge or in a special instruction.
There are three special charges in the record. None of them show by any notation thereon that refusal to give them was excepted to, nor are there separate hills complaining of such refusal.
The record does not present any error, and the judgment of the trial court will be affirmed.
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070rehearing
On Motion for Rehearing.
Complaint is made of the statement in the latter part of our opinion that there were three special charges in the record, none of which showed by notation thereon that the refusal to give same was excepted to, nor was there a separate bill complaining of such refusal. Appellant is correct in his complaint at this statement. It was certainly inaccurate. However, in the opinion we considered and passed upon the matter presented in each of the three special charges which appear in the record and the refusal to give which was excepted to. We have reviewed the matters presented in said charges, and are of opinion that they were correctly decided. There is a supplemental brief and argument filed by appellant in which he refers to his special charge set out on page 12 of the transcript. We regret that we cannot find any special charge there, and also that we are unable to apply any principles announced in the eases cited in said 'supplemental argument to any of the special charges appearing in the record.
Believing the case properly decided in the original opinion, the motion for rehearing is overruled.
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