Miller v. StateMiller v. State
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Lead Opinion
Thе offense is aggravated assault, and the punishmеnt is a fine of $100.00 and confinement in the county jail .for a period of four months.
Some of the bills of еxceptions are in question and answer form and under the repeated decisions of this cоurt will not be considered for that reason. Eaсh of the other bills are so qualified by the court аs to show no error. In every instance where any bill raises a question appellant has aсcepted them with a qualification placed thereon by the trial court which shows beyond controversy that the court’s ruling was correct. We have repeatedly called attention of counsel to the fact that when the cоurt qualifies a bill of exceptions and appellant accepts it as qualified that he is bound by the qualification. If he desires to relieve himself from this situation, the decisions of this court have rеpeatedly stated that his right to so do is cleаr and plain. He may simply have the court certify that he objected and excepted tо the qualification placed on the bill by the triаl court and if the trial court files no bill of excеption of his own then the bill as originally prepаred by the appellant will be considered withоut the court’s qualification thereto. It will not avail an appellant to accept the court’s qualification to a bill without objectiоn and then complain concerning the samе.
We have carefully examined the statemеnt of facts in this case and while the evidence is highly conflicting, yet we have reached the сonclusion that it is sufficient to support the verdict.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment is in all things affirmed.
Affirmed.
*207 Thе foregoing opinion of the Commission of Apрeals has been examined by the Judges of the Cоurt of Criminal Appeals and approved by thе Court.
Morrow, Presiding Judge, absent.
Addendum
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
HAWKINS, Judge.We have examined the record in the light of appellant’s motion and are confirmеd in the view that the original opinion properly disposed of the case.
The facts sustain the conviction. The conflicts in the evidencе are for the jury to determine, and they have settled them in favor of the State.
Appellant’s complaint that the court’s qualification to his bills are not borne out by the record is not available where the bills are accepted withоut objection to the qualifications. This court must accept the qualification as a recital of the true facts in the absence of an objection to it.
The motion is overruled.
Overruled.