Case Name: Will Hall, alias Will Hart, v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1926-10-13
Citations: 105 Tex. Crim. 216
Docket Number: No. 10221
Parties: Will Hall, alias Will Hart, v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 105
Pages: 216–217

Head Matter:
Will Hall, alias Will Hart, v. The State.
No. 10221.
Delivered October 13, 1926.
The opinion states the case.
No brief filed by appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robert M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is burglary; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.
In the indictment it is charged that the appellant entered the house of M. A. Ector, by force and without his consent, with the intent to take -from- his possession certain personal property.
The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged. A recital of it is deemed unnecessary, further "than to say that it was undisputed, that the alleged burglarized premises did not'belong to> and were not in the possession of the person named in the, indictment as the owner. The statute requires that the owner or possessor of the property be named in the indictment, and where property is in joint possession of the husband and wife, living together and occupying the same premises, the husband should be named as the possessor and owner. Under some circumstances it is permissible to charge the ownership in the wife, but the facts in the present case do not come within the excep tions. See Peoples v. State, 90 Tex. Crim. Rep. 236, and numerous cases there cited.
The proof failing to correspond with the allegation, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.