Case ID: sw2d_46/html/0328-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

WILLITS v. STATE.
    No. 14837.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 10, 1932.
    Lamar Bethea, of Bryan, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Conviction for unlawfully - carrying a pistol ; punishment, a fine of $100.

The prosecution is upon complaint and information. The complaint has no jurat of any officer'certifying that same was subscribed and sworn to before him. The complaint is fatally defective. The jurat of some officer authorized by law to administer oaths is necessary to verify the fact that the complaint was properly sworn to. Scott v. State, 9 Tex. App. 434; Robertson v. State, 25 Tex. App. 529, 8 S. W. 659; Stalcup v. State, 99 Tex. Cr. R. 415, 269 S. W. 1044.

. The judgment will be reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.