Case ID: sw2d_234/html/0058-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BEAUCHAMP, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

BARNES v. STATE.
    No. 24991.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Nov. 22, 1950.
    
      •Chas. H. Dean, Plainview, for appellant.
    George P. Blackburn, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

Appellant was assessed a fine of $250 hy a jury verdict on a charge of possessing liquor for the purpose of sale.

When the jury was impanelled the County Attorney began reading the complaint to the jury, instead of the information. Defendant duly objected to the reading of the complaint. The cour-t overruled his objection, to which defendant excepted.

.The complaint is an affidavit which is hearsay evidence and not admissible in ■evidence. The pleading in the case is the information filed by the County Attorney. It should be perfectly clear as we have ■often held that the complaint should not ■be read to the jury.

Other errors are not discussed because ■they may not occur in another trial.

For the error discussed the judgment of the -trial court is reversed and the cause is remanded.