
    BERNAL v. STATE.
    (No. 9368.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Oct. 7, 1925.
    Rehearing Denied Feb. 17, 1926.)
    I.Criminal law <@=ji598(6) — Motion for continuance for absence of witness, not subpoenaed until shortly before trial, properly overruled for want of diligence.
    In prosecution for transporting intoxicating liquor, where defendant was arrested and gave bond on May 5, 1924, and made no effort to have absent witness subpoenaed until a few days before trial on November 19, 1924, motion for continuance was properly denied for want of diligence.
    2. Criminal law <&wkey;>l086(l4) — Matters com-, plained of not considered, where there, are no exceptions thereto in record.
    Matters complained of in appellant’s brief cannot be considered by appellate court, where there are no exceptions in the record covering the same.
    On Motion for Rehearing.
    3. Criminal law <&wkey;B95(.4) — Testimony attributed to absent witness held of such in-' definite character and its admissibility so questionable as to justify refusal of continuance.
    Testimony attributed to absent witness, claimed to corroborate defendant’s story that grips containing liquor came, were delivered to him as service car driver by person believed to be passenger, held of such indefinite character,- and its admissibility so questionable, as to justify refusal of continuance.
    4. Criminal law <i&wkey;956(5) — Motion for new trial should be accompanied by affidavit of absent witness that he would testify to facts set up in application for continuance.
    Motion for new trial for absence of witness should be accompanied by affidavit of absent witness stating that he would testify to facts set up in the application for the continuance.
    Commissioners’ Decision.
    Appeal from Criminal District Court, Nueces County; A. W. Cunningham, Judge.
    ' Juan Bernal was convicted of transporting intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    Sutherland & Sutherland and B. D. Tarl-ton,' all of Corpus Christi, for appellant.
    Tom Garrard, State’s Atty., and Grover C. Morris, Asst. State’s Atty., both of Austin, for the State.
   BERRY, J.

The appellant was indicted, tried, and convicted in the criminal district court of Nueces county for transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment assessed at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary.

The record in this case discloses only two bills of exceptions; the first complains of the action of the court in overruling appellant’s subsequent motion for a continuance, and the second bill complains of the court’s action in overruling his motion for a new trial. The motion for continuance was made to obtain the testimony of Owen Dunn. The record discloses that appellant wad arrested and gave bond on May 5, 1924, and no effort to have said witness subpoenaed was ever made until a few days before the case was called for trial on November 19, 1924. The application for a continuance states the witness promised to be present to testify, and it appears he was relying upon said promise until a few days before the case was called for trial, then attempted to locate said witness for the purpose of subpoenaing him, but never succeeding in having him served with any process. We think the record in this case fails ' to show proper diligence, and that the trial court committed no error in overruling the application for a continuance nor in refusing a new trial by reason thereof.

The second bill of exception fails to show any error of the trial court in overruling motion for a new trial. There are other matters complained of in appellant’s' brief, but no exceptions in the record covering same which preclude this court from considering them.

After a careful consideration of the record, we are of the opinion that the judgment of the trial court should be, and the same is hereby, affirmed.

PER CURIAM. The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been 'examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals, and approved by the court.

On Motion for Rehearing.

■LATTIMORE, J.

In addition to the reasons assigned in our original opinion as supporting the action of the trial court in refusing the continuance, we further observe that the testimony attributed to, the absent witness was of such indefinite character, and its admissibility so questionable, as to remove any element of doubt as to the correctness of the refusal of said continuance. It is stated in the application that by the absent witness defendant expected to prove that:

“While the witness was seated on the porch of the St. James hotel, a stranger called at the hotel and asked if three grips had been brought to the hotel by a little short Mexican service car driver, thereby corroborating the statements of these defendants at the time of their arrest that the grips containing the intoxicating liquor seized by the rangers had been delivered to the defendants, as service car drivers, by some person they believed to be a passenger arriving at the depot in the city of Corpus Christi, and further tending to establish the fact that these defendants did not unlawfully transport this liquor.”

It will be observed it is not stated that any of the conversation was addressed to the witness, nor is any attempted description given of the stranger, nor of the party whom he expected to bring the grips to the hotel, nor is it shown that the party to whom the conversation was addressed could not be had as a witness. In reference to that part of said testimony asserting the statements of the stranger to be corroborative of those of the defendant when arrested, we observe that neither in the testimony of appellant nor of the officers, regarding the conversation had at the time of the arrest, was it claimed that appellant stated that he obtained the grips containing the intoxicating liquor from some stranger at the depot. Quite the contrary appears. Both officers who participated in the arrest testified that appellant told them at the time that his co-defendant, one Godoy, who was in the car with him, had nothing to do with the liquor, that it belonged to appellant. We might further observe that the motion for new trial is not accompanied by the affidavit of the absent witness stating that he would testify to any of the facts set up in the application for continuance.

We observe no error in the action of the ‘court submitting to the jury the law applicable to both counts in the indictment, viz.: Transportation of intoxicating liquor, and possession of same for purposes of sale. The two charges were each supported in the testimony. The jury were instructed to find by their verdict under which count, if any, they found appellant guilty, and in compliance with this instruction they found him guilty under the first count.

The charge in the indictment was the transportation of intoxicating liquor, and the testimony, showed conclusively that the liquor found in appellant’s car, in which he was transporting it, was tequila, and that it was intoxicating.

There is nothing in the record supporting appellant’s contention that he was not tried by a legal jury.

Being unable to agree with any of the contentions made by appellant, his motion for rehearing will be overruled. 
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