Case Name: JENKINS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1942-03-11
Citations: 159 S.W.2d 885
Docket Number: No. 22000
Parties: JENKINS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 159
Pages: 885–886

Head Matter:
JENKINS v. STATE.
No. 22000.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 11, 1942.
Philip S. Kouri, of Wichita Falls, for appellant.
Spurgeon E. Bell, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
GRAVES, Judge.
Appellant was charged with unlawfully carrying knuckles, and,- under a plea of guilty before the court, was fined the sum of $10.
The complaint is fatally defective in that it charges that appellant did carry on or about his person knuckles made of metal and a hard substance, to-wit: shot, thus charging this offense in the alternative instead of the conjunctive. See Branch's Penal Code, p. 556, Sec. 967, and authorities there cited.
We are also unable to see how a fine of $10 could be assessed under a charge of unlawfully carrying arms, the lowest fine mentioned in Art. 483, P. C., denouncing such offense, being $100,
On account of the defect in the complaint, this cause is reversed and the prosecution order dismissed.