Case ID: sw_211/html/0944-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(85 Tex. Cr. R. 281)
    SMITH v. STATE.
    (No. 5214.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 14, 1919.)
    Animals @=>36 — Tick Eradication Act — Information.
    Under Tick Eradication Act, § 15 (Vernon’s Ann. Pen. Code Supp. 1918, art. 1284k), making it an offense for any person owning or caring for any domestic animals located in quarantined territory to refuse or fail to dip such live stock as directed in writing by the live stock sanitary commission, an information and eom-plaint winch fails to allege notification in writing of tlie time and manner such dipping was required to be done by the commission is fatally defective.
    Appeál from Harris County Court at Law; Walter E. Monteitli, Judge.
    Joel Smith was convicted of violation of the Tick Eradication Act, and he appeals.
    Reversed and dismissed.
    Love & Eouts, of Houston, for appellant.
    E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

In this case appellant was convicted in the county court at law of Harris county, Tex., of a violation of the tick eradication act passed by the Thirty-Fifth Legislature, and on appeal brings his case before us for review. The facts need not be stated, as the case must be reversed and dismissed because the information and complaint are fatally defective.

Section 15 of chapter 60 of the General Laws of Texas enacted by the Thirty-Fifth Legislature (Vernon’s Ann. Pen. Code Supp. 1918; art. 1284k) penalizes any person, company, or corporation owning, controlling, or caring for any domestic animal or animals located in any territory quarantined through the provisions of said act who shall refuse or fail to dip such live stock at such time and manner “as directed in writing by the live stock sanitary commission.”

This clearly requires the state to allege and prove a notification in writing of file time and manner such dipping is required to be done by the live stock sanitary commission. An inspection of the complaint and information in the instant case discloses a failure to allege that the notification was in writing. This is fatally defective.

The case will be reversed and dismissed. 
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