Case Name: HESTER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1919-01-29
Citations: 208 S.W. 515
Docket Number: No. 5239
Parties: HESTER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 208
Pages: 515–515

Head Matter:
HESTER v. STATE.
(No. 5239.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Jan. 29, 1919.)
Ceiminai, Law <&wkey;1086(S) — Appeal—Record —Complaint, Information, or Indictment.
Upon an appeal from a conviction, where the record presents neither complaint, information, nor indictment as a basis for the prosecution, the judgment of the lower court will be reversed, and the cause remanded.
Appeal from Lamar County Court; Tom L. Beauchamp, Judge.
Martin Hester was convicted of vagrancy, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
E, B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, J.
The conviction is for vagrancy. We find neither complaint, information, nor indictment in the record as a basis for the prosecution, in the absence of which it is ordered that the judgment of the lower court be reversed, and the cause remanded.