Opinion

Brown v. State

  • 46 Tex. Crim. 572
  • 81 S.W. 718
  • 1904 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 191
Court
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Filed
Jun 24, 1904
Status
Published
Author
Davidson
On the bench
Davidson
Cited by
25 cases
Authority
More cited than 98.4%

The opinion

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Conviction of cattle theft; four years in the penitentiary fixed as a penalty. The indictment is attacked because it begins, “In the name and the authority of the State of Texas,” the word “by” being omitted and “the” inserted, whereas the constitutional requirement is that it shall begin “In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas.” This objection is well taken. The question has been so often decided we deem it unnecessary to enter

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into a further discussion of it. Saine v. State, 14 Texas Crim. App., 144; Jefferson v. State, 24 Texas Crim. App.. 535; Owens v. State, 25 Texas Crim. App., 552; Thompson v. State, 15 Texas Crim. App., 39; Thompson v. State, 15 Texas Crim. App., 168; Scroggins v. State, 36 Texas Crim. Rep., 117 ; White’s Ann. C. C. P., secs, 336, 345. We deem the other questions raised without merit. The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

Reversed and dismissed.

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