Case ID: sw_230/html/0165-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

DIAS v. STATE.
    (No. 5800.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    April 27, 1921.)
    Criminal law &wkey;>H86(l) — Where no indictment or information but a complaint appears in record, case will be remanded.
    On appeal from conviction as a juvenile delinquent where in the record there is found neither indictment nor information, in the absence of which a conviction must fall, but a complaint is found upon which it is possible that information may yet be filed, the prosecution will not be dismissed, but the judgment will be reversed and the cause remanded.
    Appeal from District Court, Wichita County ; Wm. N. Bonner, Judge.
    Adlido Dias was convicted as a juvenile delinquent, and appeals.
    Reversed and remanded.
    R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The appellant is under 'conviction as a juvenile delinquent.

In the record we find neither indictment nor information. In the absence of one of these, a conviction must fall.

A complaint is found, and upon this it is possible that the information may yet be filed.

'We do not therefore order the prosecution dismissed, but reverse the judgment and remand the cause. 
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