Case ID: tex-crim_165/html/0302-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BELCHER, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Charles Jackson v. State
    No. 29,253.
    November 13, 1957.
    No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.
    
      Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
   BELCHER, Judge.

The conviction is for carrying a pistol; the punishment, a fine of $100.

Both the complaint and information charge that the appellant did unlawfully carry “on or about” his person a pistol.

A complaint and information which charges that the accused did carry on or about his person a pistol, because of the use of the word “or” rather than the word “and,” renders such allegation uncertain and the complaint and information defective. Art. 483, Vernon’s A.P.C.; 44 Texas Jur. p. 477, Sec. 34; 2 Branch (2d Ed.) Sec. 975; Evage v. State, 136 Texas Cr. Rep. 318, 125 S.W. (2d) 295; Wilson v. State, 151 Texas Cr. Rep. 570, 209 S.W. (2d) 598; Scott v. State, 153 Texas Cr. Rep. 492, 221 S.W. (2d) 608.

Because of the insufficiency of the complaint and information, the judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

Opinion approved by the court.