Case ID: tex_32/html/0096-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lindsay, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Phil Johnson.
    1—An indictment is quasliable unless it contains allegations both of the timo and of the place at which the offense is charged to have been committed.
    2.—The time must be alleged, in order that it may appear that the offense is not barred by the statute of limitations.
    8—The place must be alleged, in order that it may appear that the court has jurisdiction of the cause.
    Appeal from Smith. Tried below before the Hon. Samuel L. Earle.
    The appellee was indicted for the theft of 8160 in coin and $60 in currency, the property of B. II. Denson. The indictment was quashed on his motion, and the District Attorney appealed on behalf of the State.
    
      E. B. Turner, Attorney General, for the State, conceded the insufficiency of the indictment.
   Lindsay, J.

The motion to quash the indictment in tills case was properly sustained. There is no allegation in it, of either the time or oí the place of the commission of the offense. The first is necessary, that it may appear from the charge it is not barred by the statute of limitations. The other is indispensable, that the court may know whether it has jurisdiction of the cause. For these defects it was rightfully quashed. The judgment is affirmed.

Affirmed.