Case ID: tex-ct-app_27/html/0478-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 6287.
    Frederick Juniper v. The State.
    Complaint—Information—Variance.—The complaint impleads John Juniper, and the information Frederick Juniper. Held, that the variance is fatal to the information.
    Appeal from the County Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. E. G. Bower.
    The appellant was convicted for maintaining a nuisance in violation of the public health laws; his penalty was assessed at a fine of one hundred dollars.
    
      Evans & Gooch, for appellant.
    
      W. L. Davidson, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
    
      Opinion delivered April 20, 1889.
   Willson, Judge.

There is no complaint in the record to support the information. The information charges Frederick Juniper. There is a complaint in the record charging John Juniper, but none charging Frederick Juniper, with the offense charged in the information. This variance between the complaint and the information is fatal and requires the conviction to be set aside. (McDevro v. The State, 23 Tex. Ct. App., 429.) This defect is confessed by the Assistant Attorney General.

The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded for such further proceedings as the State may see proper to pursue.

Reversed and remanded.