Case ID: sw_208/html/0515-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

HESTER v. STATE.
    (No. 5239.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 29, 1919.)
    Ceiminai, Law <&wkey;1086(S) — Appeal—Record —Complaint, Information, or Indictment.
    Upon an appeal from a conviction, where the record presents neither complaint, information, nor indictment as a basis for the prosecution, the judgment of the lower court will be reversed, and the cause remanded.
    Appeal from Lamar County Court; Tom L. Beauchamp, Judge.
    Martin Hester was convicted of vagrancy, and appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    E, B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, J.

The conviction is for vagrancy. We find neither complaint, information, nor indictment in the record as a basis for the prosecution, in the absence of which it is ordered that the judgment of the lower court be reversed, and the cause remanded.