Case Name: BROCKMAN et al. v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1930-06-11
Citations: 29 S.W.2d 790
Docket Number: No. 13614
Parties: BROCKMAN et al. v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 29
Pages: 790–790

Head Matter:
BROCKMAN et al. v. STATE.
No. 13614.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 11, 1930.
See, also, 28 S.W.(2d) 820.
John D. Reese, of McKinney, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the St%te.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, J.
The offense is. operating a moving picture show on Sunday; the punishment, a fine of $50.
The information contains several counts. In each count the parties are alleged to be "proprietor, agent and employee of a place of public amusement," etc., which was kept open on Sunday and for admission -to which an admission fee was. charged.
We find in the record no evidence supporting the allegation that the parties were the proprietors of the picture show.
The information is defective in that, in undertaking to charge appellants as "agent or employee," the principal or proprietor is not named. It was incumbent upon the state to name the principal or proprietor, or, if such party whs not known, to so allege. Roy Brockman et al. .v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 28 S.W.(2d) 821, delivered May 21, 1930.
The judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
PER CURIAM.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court..