Case Name: Evaristo BRITO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1955-05-18
Citations: 279 S.W.2d 104
Docket Number: No. 27504
Parties: Evaristo BRITO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 279
Pages: 104–104

Head Matter:
Evaristo BRITO, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 27504.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 18, 1955.
Leonard Howell,- Midland, for appellant.
, Hulon B. Brown, County Atty., Midland, Leon Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, Judge.
This is a conviction under Art. 483, Vernon's Ann.P.C., which makes' it unlawful for one to carry on or about his1 person a "bowie knife or any other knife manufactured or sold for the purposes of offense or defense." The punishment was assessed at six months in jail.
In charging such offense, the information charged only that appellant did unlawfully carry on or about his person a knife.
Appellant's attack upon the information as being insufficient to charge an offense should have been sustained.
To come within the statute the knife must be one which is described in the statute. Knives, generally, are not covered by the statute.
The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.