Case ID: tex-l-r_3/html/0317-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

TRIMBLE v. THE STATE.
    Appeal from Rains county.
    
      Indictment — Robbery.—An indictment alleging “that Bill Trimble did with force and arms, in the county of Rains and State of Texas, on the 26th day of October, 1883, by assault and by violence and by putting in fear of life and bodily injury, unlawfully and fraudulently take.from the person and possession of Henry Ivy, ten dollars in money,” etc.; held bad, because it does not allege that the party alleged to have been robbed was the person assaulted or put in fear by the defendant.
    
      Evidence. — Eor the purpose of showing the animus ofthewitness Ivy, the prosecutor, defendants counsel should have been allowed to ask him if he had not, just before instituting this prosecution, had a conversation with defendant about defendant’s knowlege of an alleged incestuous intercourse between witness and his niece.
    Reversed and remanded.
   Opinion by

Willson, J.