Case Name: HEDGES et al. v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1939-12-20
Citations: 136 S.W.2d 607
Docket Number: No. 20534
Parties: HEDGES et al. v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 136
Pages: 607–608

Head Matter:
HEDGES et al. v. STATE.
No. 20534.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dec. 20, 1939.
Rehearing Denied Feb. 21, 1940.
Wm. E. Davenport, of San Angelo, for appellants.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
GRAVES, Judge.
This case is a companion case to S. M. Hedges et al. v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 136 S. W.2d 606, and presents itself in the same condition and under the same circumstances as that case.
Merely because the two bonds are in the same amount, and executed by the same parties, will not render their citations interchangeable so that each citation can be moved from one case over into the other by means of a trial amendment. Each bond is a separate undertaking, and possibly susceptible to separate defenses, and the office of a trial amendment can not be utilized for the purpose of correcting a fatal variance between the allegation and the proof.
The judgmen of the trial court is reversed and the cause remanded.