Case Name: Charley Wright v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1896-04-15
Citations: 37 Tex. Crim. 3
Docket Number: No. 794
Parties: Charley Wright v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 37
Pages: 3–5

Head Matter:
Charley Wright v. The State.
No. 794.
Decided April 15th, 1896.
Motion for Rehearing Decided January 13th, 1897.
1. Information—Conclusion of.
An information which, does not conclude, “against the peace and dignity of the State,” as required by the Constitution, Art. 5, Sec. 12, is fatally defective.
ON MOTION EOE BEHEAEING.
'2. Rehearing—Practice on Appeal.
Where an appeal has been dismissed on account of a fatal defect in the information, the judgment of dismissal will be set aside and a rehearing granted upon satisfactory proof that said information was incorrectly copied into the transcript, and that it was, in fact, valid and sufficient in the particular in which it was held defective.
3. Statement of Facts—Practice on Appeal.
A statement of facts, which is not approved by the judge, though signed by the attorneys, cannot he considered on appeal.
4. Local Option—Publication of the Result.
Where the order of the County Court, declaring the result of a local option election, has been published the requisite time in one newspaper, it is immaterial that it was not properly published in another paper.
5. Minutes of Court—Signing Same by Judge.
It is not necessary to the validity of the orders entered upon the minutes of the court, that said minutes were not signed by the presiding judge.
6. Judgments, Orders and Decrees of Court—Charge.
It is the duty of the court to construe such judgments, orders, and decrees, as may he brought in question before it; and a-charge, instructing the jury that the orders and decrees under which a local option election was held were prima facie correct, is not erroneous.
Appeal from the County Court of Erath. Tried below before Hon. Thomas B. King, County Judge.
Appeal from a conviction for violation of local option; penalty, a fine of $30 and twenty days’ imprisonment in the county jail.
There is no valid statement of facts in the case. The matters presented by the hills of exception are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
[No brief for appellant.]
Mann Trice, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This is a conviction for a violation of the local option law. Appellant assigns several errors, three of which are noticed by the Assistant Attorney-General in his brief. As the record is presented to us, there is a fatal defect in the information, which requires a reversal of the judgment. This has been overlooked in the-presentation of the case by counsel. The defect in the information mentioned is that it fails to conclude "against the peace and dignity of the State." Article 5, § 12, of the State Constitution, provides, among-other things, "that all prosecutions shall be carried on in the name and by the authority of the State of Texas, and shall conclude, 'against the peace and dignity of the State.'" This information should have concluded "against the peace and dignity of the State." This is an express mandatory provision of the Constitution. There is no suggestion in the record or to this court that this is an omission by the clerk in transcribing said information into the record, and no certiorari is requested. The judgment is reversed, and the cause ordered dismissed.
Reversed and Dismissed.