Case Name: Stephen Craig FOSTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1982-02-03
Citations: 635 S.W.2d 710
Docket Number: No. 61714
Parties: Stephen Craig FOSTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: Before DALLY, W. C. DAVIS and TEAGUE, JJ.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 635
Pages: 710–721

Head Matter:
Stephen Craig FOSTER, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 61714.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 3.
Feb. 3, 1982.
On Rehearing En Banc July 21, 1982.
Robert G. Turner, Houston, for appellant.
Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Larry P. Urquhart and Cris Lorenzen, Asst. Dist. At-tys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
Before DALLY, W. C. DAVIS and TEAGUE, JJ.

Opinion:
OPINION
DALLY, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for the possession of cocaine; the punishment is imprisonment for six years and a fine of $1,000, probated.
The indictment alleges that on or about August 24,1977, the appellant "intentionally and knowingly possess[ed] a controlled substance, namely, cocaine." At the time alleged cocaine was not specifically named in the penalty group of the Controlled Substance Act. The pleading fails to allege an offense; such a pleading in Crowl v. State, 611 S.W.2d 59 (Tex.Cr.App.1981) was held to be fundamentally defective. Since the pleading is fundamentally defective the court did not have jurisdiction; Daniels v. State, 573 S.W.2d 21 (Tex.Cr.App.1978); Standley v. State, 517 S.W.2d 538 (Tex.Cr.App.1975). The appellant's argument that jeopardy attached is without merit. Ward v. State, 520 S.W.2d 395 (Tex. Cr.App.1975); Hill v. State, 171 S.W.2d 880 (Tex.Cr.App.1943).
Burks v. United States, 437 U.S. 1, 98 S.Ct. 2141, 57 L.Ed.2d 1 (1978) and Greene v. Massey, 437 U.S. 19, 98 S.Ct. 2151, 57 L.Ed.2d 15 (1978) cited and relied upon by the appellant are not in point. In those cases the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari to decide whether a defendant may be retried after his conviction has been reversed by an appellate court on the ground that the evidence introduced at a prior trial was insufficient as a matter of law. These were not cases in which the trial court did not have jurisdiction of the particular offense because of a fatally defective pleading.
The judgment is reversed and the indictment is ordered dismissed.