Case ID: sw_279/html/0457-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORB, j.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RAY v. STATE.
    (No. 9805.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    January 20, 1926.)
    Automobiles <&wkey;^-351 — Information for operating vehicle without license plates, failing to charge operation on highway, fatally defective.
    Information and' complaint charging operation of a motor vehicle without license plate attached, in violation of Pen. Code 1925, art. 810, hold fatally defective as failing to charge operation on a public highway.
    Appeal from Comanche County Court; R. A. Duker, Judge.
    W. R. Ray was convicted of operating a motor vehicle without having attached thereto a license number plate, and he appeals.
    Reversed, ,and prosecution ordered dismissed.
    A. B. Haworth, of Comanche, for appellant.
    Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Nat Gentry, Jr., Asst. State’s Atty., of Tyler, for the State.
   LATTIMORB, j.

Appellant was convicted in the county court of Comanche county for operating a motor vehicle without having attached thereto a license number plate and pair of license number plátes issued for said vehicle.

Article 820aa, Vernon’s 1920 Statutes, which is article 810, P. C. 1925, forbids the operation of a motor vehicle without said plates only when operated on a public highway in this state. We find nothing in the complaint and information charging appel-ant with operating said vehicle on such public highway. The information and complaint are fatally defective.

The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed. 
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