Case ID: tex-crim_119/html/0117-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Frank Willits v. The State.
    No. 14837.
    Delivered February 10, 1932.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      Lamar Bethea, of Bryan, for appellant.
    
      Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.
   LATTIMORE, Judge.

Conviction for unlawfully carrying a pistol; punishment, a fine of $100.

The prosecution is upon complaint and information. The complaint has no jurat of any officer certifying that same was subscribed and sworn to before him. The complaint is fatally defective. The jurat of some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, is necessary to verify the fact that the complaint was properly sworn to. Scott v. State, 9 Texas App., 434; Robertson v. State, 25 Texas App., 529, 8 S. W., 659; Stalcup v. State, 99 Texas Crim. Rep., 415, 269 S. W., 1044.

The judgment will be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

Dismissed.