Farb v. State

Decision Date19 March 1924
Docket NumberNo. 24448.,24448.
Citation143 N.E. 155,194 Ind. 399
PartiesFARB v. STATE.
CourtIndiana Supreme Court

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Appeal from Criminal Court, Marion County; Frank A. Symmes, Judge pro tem.

Joe Farb was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor, and appeals. Affirmed.

Earl R. Cox, of Indianapolis, for appellant.

U. S. Lesh, Atty. Gen., Mrs. Edward Franklin White, Deputy Atty. Gen., and Fred I. King, of Indianapolis, for the State.

WILLOUGHBY, J.

The appellant with another was indicted for a violation of the liquor law. The indictment was in two counts. The first count charged an unlawful sale of liquor to a person or persons to the grand jurors unknown, and the second count charged the sale to one Thomas Trissler.

The defendant waived arraignment, and entered a plea of not guilty. The cause was submitted to the court for trial without the intervention of a jury. The court, after hearing the evidence, found the defendant guilty, and assessed his punishment, and entered judgment upon the finding, from which this appeal is taken.

The appellant assigns as error that the court erred in overruling appellant's motion for a new trial. In the motion for a new trial the only errors assigned are that the finding rendered against appellant is contrary to law, and that the finding is not sustained by sufficient evidence.

[1] The fifth clause of rule 22 of the Supreme Court provides:

“If the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict or finding in fact or law is assigned, the brief shall contain a condensed recital of the evidence in narrative form so as to present the substance clearly and concisely.”

Appellant's brief contains no such statement. His brief directs us to the transcript in which is found a bill of exceptions containing more than 60 pages of evidence. The certificate of the judge to the bill of exceptions shows that it was presented to such judge on the 28th day of July, 1923, and signed by him on the same day, and filed on the 18th day of August, 1923, being the forty-second judicial day of the July term, 1923, of the Marion criminal court.

[2] A further examination of the transcript shows that the motion for a new trial was overruled on the 23d day of June, 1923, being the one hundred-fiftieth judicial day of the January term, 1923, of said court, and that at the time of the overruling of such motion for a new trial no time was given appellant in which to prepare and present a bill of exceptions.

When a bill of exceptions containing the...

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