Opinion

Polk v. State

  • 547 S.W.2d 605
  • 1977 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 990
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Mar 9, 1977
Status
Published
Author
Brown
On the bench
Brown, Douglas
Cited by
7 cases
Authority
More cited than 75.9%

The opinion

OPINION

BROWN, Commissioner.

Appeal is taken from a conviction for indecency with a child. Punishment was assessed by the jury at seven years.

At the outset, we note that appellant contends the court erred in overruling his motion to quash the indictment based upon the fact that the indictment failed to allege an element of the offense, namely, “intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person.”

In the recent case of

Victory

v.

State,

Tex.Cr.App., 547 S.W.2d 1 (Decided January 21, 1976, State’s Motion for Rehearing overruled, November 3, 1976), we were faced with the identical question, and held that the court erred in failing to grant the motion to quash for the reason that the indictment was defective for failure to allege such culpable mental state.

The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

Opinion approved by the Court.

DOUGLAS, J., dissents.

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