OPINION
Thе offense is unlawful possession of marihuana; the punishment, two years confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections.
*364 The appellant entered a plea of guilty before a jury and the trial was conducted under the provisions of Article 26.14, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P.
Appellant contends in his first two grounds of error that he was denied a fair and impartial trial in that the court reporter failed to record the voir dire examination of the jury panel and the jury аrguments. He concludes that the jury’s failure to grant probation to this 46-year-old appellant, a married man with four children, means they must have been prеjudiced “by statements made in either the voir dire examination or the closing arguments.” He does not direct our attention to any particular statement or statements allegedly made.
We find nothing in the record to show that appellant at any time made a request that the court reporter take either the voir dire examination or the arguments. Article 40.09, § 4, V.A.C.C.P. Even in Moore v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,
If a request had been made in the instant case and refused by the court, no reversible error would be presented since appellant fails to specify аny error to which the transcription of the court reporter’s notes of the voir dire examination and arguments would be relevant. Morris v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,
Only recently we reversed cases where the trial court refused a timely request for a court reporter and a specific error or prejudice resulting therefrom was called to our attention. Williams v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,
If it be appellant’s claim that the court reporter recorded the voir dire and arguments, but merely failed to subsequently transcribe the same, we fail to find any effort by the appellant to comply with Article 40.09, § 5, V.A.C.C.P. in order that the same might have been brought forward in the record.
Grounds of error #1 and #2 are overruled.
In his next two grounds of error appellant advances the contention that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the conviction in that the State failed to provе that State’s Exhibit No. One (a) was of sufficient quantity to be put to its common use, to-wit: smoking, and (b) that it contained a narcotic drug.
What appellant overlоoks is the long established rule that a plea of guilty to a felony charge before a jury admits the existence of all incriminating facts necessary to establish guilt and, in such cases, the introduction of testimony by the State is to enable the jury to intelligently exercise the discretion which the law vests in them touching thе penalty to be assessed.
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Darden v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,
The presumption of innocence does not obtain under such guilty plea before the
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jury, and there is no issue of justificаtion under it. Stullivan v. State,
In such cases there are no defenses or defensive issues for the jury to pass upon, Jackson v. State,
If at such trial the defendant deems the еvidence insufficient, he may change his plea to not guilty at any time before the retirement of the jury and put upon the State the burden of proving his guilt beyоnd a reasonable doubt. Alexander v. State,
Nevertheless, appellant claims that in view of the evidence offered it became incumbent upon the trial judge to withdraw the guilty plea and еnter a plea of not guilty for the accused when he failed to do so himself. Such is, of course, the obligation of the court where the evidence introduced makes evident the innocence of the accused or which reasonably and fairly raises an issue as to such fact and such evidence is not withdrawn. Yantis v. State,
It would appear that evidence must go farther than just tending to show a defensive issue, but must reasonably and fairly present such issue bеfore the trial court would be required to withdraw the guilty plea. See Vance v. State,
In the case at bar the arresting officer identified State’s Exhibit No. Onе as the handrolled cigarette found on appellant’s person after his arrest for being drunk which he believed to be marihuana and which Dr. Whigham subsequently reported to him to be marihuana. It was stipulated that Dr. Whigham, M.D., would testify that he had examined State’s Exhibit No. One, both microscopically and chemically and found it to be “1 cigarette of marihuana.” Testifying in his own behalf, appellant admitted that he had purchased State’s Exhibit No. One, a cigarette, while aсross the border in the Republic of Mexico and testified that he had never smoked marihuana before.
Since there is no evidence as to the size of the cigarette or the weight thereof, appellant relies upon Pelham v. State,
See also Gonzalez v. State,
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Under the very terms of Article 725b, § 1(13) (14), V.A.P.C., marihuana is a narcotic drug, and after proving that the substance contained in the cigarette found on appellant’s person was marihuana, the State wаs not required to go further and prove that marihuana was in fact a narcotic drug. See Fawcett v. State,
Grounds of error #3 and #4 are overruled.
We reject aрpellant’s last ground of error that the State failed to lay the proper predicate for the introduction of Dr. Whigham’s testimony. He contends that there was no evidence to show Dr. Whigham’s qualifications as an expert witness. We observe that appellant waived in writing the appearancе, confrontation and cross-examination of the witnesses against him and stipulated as to Dr. Whig-ham’s testimony. Such stipulation was offered before the jury without objection. Such complaint raised for the first time on the motion for new trial comes too late, particularly in view of appellant’s pleа of guilty and the facts here described.
The judgment is affirmed.
Notes
. Further, in Pittman v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,
. This, however, is not the rule where a trial by jury is waived and a plea of guilty or nolo contendere is entered before the trial judge. Article 1.15, V.A. C.C.P.; Burks v. State, infra.