Case ID: tex-ct-app_25/html/0453-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Willson, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 5863.
    Alf Orr v. The State.
    Opinion delivered May 23, 1888.
    Pleading—Venue—Information is insufficient if it fails to allege the venue of the offense. That the complaint alleges the venue will not supply the omission in the information.
    Appeal from the County Court of Erath. Tried below before the Hon. W. W. Moores, County Judge.
    The conyiction was for gaming, and the penalty assessed against the appellant was a fine of twenty dollars.
    Ho brief for the appellant.
    
      W. L. Davidson, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   Willson, Judge.

There is no allegation of the venue of the -offense, and therefore the information is fatally defective. (Code Crim. Proc., art. 430, subdiv. 5; Robins v. The State, 9 Texas Ct. App., 666; Collins v. The State, 6 Texas Ct. App., 647; Jack v. The State, 3 Texas Ct. App., 72.) In the complaint the venue is properly alleged, but this does not supply the want of such allegation in the information. (Lawson v. The State, 13 Texas Ct.. App., 83.)

Because of the defect in the information, the judgment is reversed; but, as the complaint is a sufficient one, another information may be based upon it, and the prosecution is not, therefore, dismissed, but the cause is remanded that a new information may be - presented, should the county attorney see proper to do so. (Johnson v. The State, 19 Texas Ct. App., 545.)

Reversed and remanded.