Case ID: tex_43/html/0654-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Roberts, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Eugene Catchings and John Register.
    Indictment.—An indictment against two persons for horse racing along a public road should allege that defendants ran together.
    Appeal from Rockwall. Tried below before the Hon. M. H. Bonner.
    
      A. J. Peeler, Assistant Attorney General,
    
    cited Johnson v. The State, 36 Tex., 198; Galbreath v. The State, 36 Tex., 20.
   Roberts, Chief Justice.

The defendants were indicted for running a horse race along a public road. (See acts of 1873, p. 83.) One of the exceptions to the indictment is that it “ does not allege that defendants ran together.”

The court sustained the exceptions and set aside the indictment, and the district attorney gave notice of appeal and brought the case to this court, rather than have another indictment found, in compliance with opinion of the judge presiding, which seems now to be a prevailing practice.

The judgment of the court below is affirmed, under the case of Lewellen v. The State of Texas, 18 Tex., 538, and subsequent decisions of this court following it.

Affirmed.