Case Name: OYERVIDES v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-11-21
Citations: 198 S.W. 786
Docket Number: No. 4700
Parties: OYERVIDES v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 198
Pages: 786–787

Head Matter:
OYERVIDES v. STATE.
(No. 4700.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 21, 1917.)
1. Indictment and Information <§=»41(3) — Complaint — Sufficiency.
In a prosecution for aggravated assault on complaint and information, a complaint, alleging that the offense was committed on July 4, “191,” was fatally defective, as in a criminal action the pleadings must charge the date of the offense within the period of limitations.
2. Indictment and Information <S==>41(3) — Defects in Complaint — Cure.
Such defect in the complaint was not cured by the information.
Appeal from County Court, Travis County; D. J. Pickle, Judge.
Joe Oyervides was convicted of aggravated assault, and he appeals.
Reversed and cause remanded.
Paulk & Monroe, of Austin, for appellant. E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, J.
This is a prosecution on complaint and information for the offense of aggravated assault. The complaint was filed July 7, 1917, and fixed the date of the alleged offense in the following language: "On or about the 4th day of July, 191." ' We think the court was in error in failing to sustain the motion in arrest of judgment based on the insufficiency of this complaint. Complaints of this character have been held insufficient in a number of cases. Collins v. State, 5 Tex. App. 37; Brewer v. State, 5 Tex. App. 248; Vernon's C. C. P. art. 451, p. 196, note 10. It is essential that the pleadings upon which a criminal action is founded shall charge the date of the offense within the time in which it would not be barred by the statute of limitation. Bradford v. State, 62 Tex. Cr. R. 424, 138 S. W. 118, in which the indictment was held invalid, charging the date as the 19th day of April, one thousand, nine hundred and —. A defect of this description in the complaint is not cured by the information. Lackey v. State, 53 Tex. Cr. R. 459, 110 S. W. 903, and cases there cited
The judgment of the lower court is reversed, and the cause dismissed.
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