Case ID: sw2d_23/html/0728-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

PROCK v. STATE.
    (No. 12917.)
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Jan. 15, 1930.
    Art Sehlofman, of Dalhart, for appellant.
    A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, J.

Upon complaint and information appellant was tried in the county court, and adjudged guilty of aggravated assault.

The prosecution having originated in the county court, a .valid information was indispensable, and it must have been based upon .a sufficient complaint.

An assault becomes aggravated when committed by an adult male upon the person of a female. Article 1147, P. C., subd. 5. The complaint averred that appellant was a “male person,” and that he committed an assault upon Estell Proek, who was a female. Having omitted to aver that appellant was an “adult” male, the complaint charged a simple assault only. The information charged an assault, but averred that appellant was an “adult” male, and that he committed an assault upon Estell Proek, a female. Furthermore, the information alleged the date of the offense to have been on or about October 3, 1929, but it was filed in court on January 28, 1929, which was eight months before the offense was alleged to have been committed. One of the indispensable requisites of an information is that the time mentioned therein as the date of the offense be “some date anterior to the filing of the information.” Article 414, C. C. P., subd. 6.

The variance between the complaint and information, and the defect as to “time” mentioned in the information, were raised and called to the trial court’s attention in various ways, but appellant’s complaints were in every instance overruled. Upon the question of variance many cases are found collated in note 6, under article 415, Vernon’s Texas O. O. P., vol. 1, and, upon the question of “time,” many are collated under note 10, same article and volume.

Under the record presented, this court has no option but to reverse and remand.

It is so ordered.