Case ID: sw2d_13/html/0854-01.html
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Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SMITH v. STATE.
    (No. 12459.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 20, 1929.
    Upton & Upton, of San Angelo, for appellant.
    A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The offense is operating-a pool hall, denounced by article 653, P. Cl 1925; penalty fixed at a fine of $25.

The trial took place in the county court upon an information filed by the county attorney. A prosecution upon an information is-authorized only when the information is based upon a sworn complaint. See article-415, C. C. P. 1925. In the absence of the-complaint, the prosecution cannot stand. The • judgment of conviction is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.. Branch’s-Ann. Tex. P. C. p. 269, § 520; Compton v. State, 71 Tex. Cr. R. 7, 158 S. W. 515; McDonald v. State, 86 Tex. Cr. R. 304, 216 S. W. 166; Thomas v. State, 107 Tex. Cr. R. 593, 298 S. W. 590; article 415, Vernon’s Ann. Tex. C. C. P. 1925, vol. 1, 1928 Annual Pocket Part, p. 23, note 5.