Case ID: sw2d_347/html/0718-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BELCHER, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Janet ARNOLD, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 33613.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 24, 1961.
    No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.
    Frank Briscoe, Dist. Atty., Carl E. F. Dally, Edward D. Michalek, Jr., Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
   BELCHER, Commissioner.

The conviction is for shoplifting; the punishment, $50 and 15 days in jail.

The appellant and another were charged and tried jointly. In the same charge, the court submitted to the jury the question of the guilt of both parties. The single ver-diet of the jury found “ * * fendant guilty as charged * * * the de- * !>

It is impossible to determine whether one or both of the parties were found guilty by the jury.

- The verdict is fatally defective and requires a reversal. Meyer v. State, 102: Tex.Cr.R. 615, 279 S.W. 460; Davidson v.. State, 131 Tex.Cr.R. 215, 97 S.W.2d 698;. Hines v. State, 48 Tex.Cr.R. 24, 85 S.W., 1057; Grayson v. State, 152 Tex.Cr.R. 62, 211 S.W.2d 749; 42 Tex.Jur. 468, Sec. 367.

The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.

Opinion approved by the Court.