Case ID: tex-ct-app_12/html/0423-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Hurt, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

T. M. Griffin v. The State.
    Aggravated" Assault.—When, in a prosecution for aggravated assault, the sole ground of aggravation relied upon is that the assaulted party was a female, the indictment must allege that the assaulting party was an adult male, or it is insufficient to charge the offense.
    Appeal from the County Court of Bosque. Tried below before the Hon. B. G. Childress, County Judge.
    
      No brief for appellant has reached the Reporters.
    
      H. Chilton, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   Hurt, J.

The appellant was convicted of an aggravated assault upon Alice Pope. The indictment fails to charge that appellant was an adult male, nor does the indictment charge any other ground of aggravation than that the assault was made upon a female.

Subdivision 5 of article 496 of the Penal Code provides that " when committed by an adult male upon the person of a female,” etc. To convict of aggravated assault upon this ground, the indictment must charge that the person making the assault was an adult male.

This indictment is not sufficient for an aggravated assault. The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.