Case ID: sw2d_172/html/0696-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BEAUCHAMP, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HERNANDEZ v. STATE.
    No. 22575.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 23, 1943.
    Chas. Owen, of El Paso, ?or appellant.
    Spurgeon E. Bell, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a fine of $750 upon a conviction for negligent homicide by a jury in the county court of El Paso County.

The complaint and information in this case were filed on October 12, 1942. It appears from the record that the complaint was not sworn to until the 3rd day of February, 1943, which was the day before the case was called for trial. Under this state of fact, the complaint was void and there was no basis for the filing of the information, which is the written pleading required by law to be filed. Art. 415, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P., and authorities therein referred to; Sprowles v. State, 65 Tex.Cr.R. 96, 143 S.W. 622; Thomas v. State, 107 Tex.Cr.R. 405, 296 S.W. 310; Thomas v. State, 107 Tex.Cr.R. 474, 296 S.W. 894; Thomas v. State, 107 Tex.Cr.R. 593, 298 S.W. 590; and Murphy v. State, 132 Tex.Cr.R. 202, 103 S.W.2d 765.

The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.