Case ID: sw_132/html/0773-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

NOBLES v. STATE.
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Dec. 7, 1910.)
    Appeal from District Court, McLennan County; Bichard I. Munroe, Judge.
    Cullen Nobles was convicted of robbery, and he appeals.
    Beversed, and prosecution dismissed. .
    John A. Mobley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   DAVIDSON, P. J.

Appellant was convicted of robbery, and given 40 years in the penitentiary.

The indictment charges appellant did on the 29th day of February, 1910, commit the offense of robbery as set out in the indictment. Motion is made to quash, on the ground that the indictment sets out an impossible date, does not comply with the law in regard to charging the date of the offense, etc. This motion is well taken, and should have been sustained. The precise question was decided in the case of Stephens v. State, 51 Tex. Cr. R. 407, 103 S. W. 904. In that case the indictment charged that the offense was committed on the 31st day of June, an impossible date. The indictment was held vicious. This is a companion case to McGinsey v. State (this day decided) supra. The same question arose in that case, and the authorities are cited.

Because the indictment is invalid, the judgment is reversed, and the prosecution is ordered dismissed.