Case ID: sw2d_54/html/0119-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CHRISTIAN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

RHODES v. STATE.
    No. 15635.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Nov. 9, 1932.
    P. O. French, of Fairfield, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   CHRISTIAN, J.

The offense is theft of hogs; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The indictment alleges that appellant “did then and there unlawfully take nine hogs,” etc., • omitting the word “fraudulently.” The use of the word “fraudulently” is indispensable in charging theft under our statute (Pen. Code 1925, art. 1410). Haney v. State, 117 Tex. Cr. R. 564, 37 S.W.(2d) 746; Phillips v. State, S9 Tex. Cr. R. 483, 231 S. W. 400, 401, and authorities cited. In Phillips v. State, supra, it was held that an allegation that the appellant “did unlawfully take, steal, and carry away” was not equivalent to an averment that he “did then and there fraudulently take,” etc.

The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.

HAWKINS, J., not sitting.