Case ID: tex-crim_138/html/0456-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "GRAVES, Judge. CHRISTIAN, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

S. M. Hedges, George L. Short and T. L. Salvator, Appellants, v. The State, Appellee.
    No. 20534.
    Delivered December 20, 1939.
    Rehearing Denied February 21, 1940.
    
      The opinion states the case.
    
      Wm. E. Davenport, of San Angelo, for appellants.
    
      Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.
   GRAVES, Judge.

This case is a companion case to our No. 20533, S. M. Hedges, et al v. State, (page 453. of this volume) and presents itself in the same condition and under the same circumstances as that case.

Merely because the two bonds are in the same amount, and executed by the same parties, will not render their citations interchangeable so that each citation can be moved from one case over into the other by means of a trial amendment. Each bond is a separate undertaking, and possibly susceptible to separate defenses, and the office of a trial amendment can not be utilized for the purpose of correcting a fatal variance between the allegation and the proof.

The judgment of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded.

ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING.

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

After carefully re-examining the record in the light of the State’s motion for rehearing we are constrained to adhere to the conclusion expressed in the original opinion.

The motion for rehearing is overruled.

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.