Case ID: sw2d_358/html/0635-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DICE, Commissioner.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Benito CARRILLO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 34662.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    June 30, 1962.
    No Attorney on Appeal, for appellant.
    Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
   DICE, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of theft from the person, upon his plea of guilty to an indictment charging the offense of robbery by assault, and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The state confesses error and concedes that the conviction for theft from the person cannot be sustained under the indictment for robbery by assault, since it is not an included offense.

The state’s position is well taken, under the holding of this court in Van Arsdale v. State, 149 Tex.Cr.App. 639, 198 S.W.2d 270, that the offense of theft from the person is not an included offense in the crime of robbery and that a court is without jurisdiction to try an accused for the offense of theft from the person under an indictment charging- the offense of robbery. See, also, Ex parte Dies, 160 Tex.Cr.R. 468, 272 S.W.2d 373.

The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.

Opinion approved by the Court.