Case Name: Jerry Lynn COX, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1964-06-17
Citations: 380 S.W.2d 121
Docket Number: No. 37067
Parties: Jerry Lynn COX, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 380
Pages: 121–121

Head Matter:
Jerry Lynn COX, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 37067.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 17, 1964.
Ben Henderson, Dallas, for appellant.
Henry Wade, Dist. Atty., C. M. Turling-ton, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
BELCHER, Commissioner.
The conviction is for driving while license suspended; the punishment, a fine of $100 and 5 days in jail.
No statement of facts accompanies the record.
The appellant duly and timely filed and presented to the trial court a motion to quash the complaint and information on the ground they do not apprize the appellant of the reasons for the suspension of his operator's license. The trial court overruled the motion and appellant reserved his exception thereto.
The complaint and information only charged that appellant drove a motor vehicle upon a public highway when his operator's license was suspended.
In the recent case of Adams v. State, 376 S.W.2d 832, 833, this Court held that "a complaint and information charging the offense of driving while license suspended is subject to exception or motion to quash on the ground that it fails to recite under which Article (Art. 6687b, Vernon's Ann. Civ.St. or Art. 6701h, Vernon's Ann.Civ. St.) the license was suspended."
There is no allegation in the present complaint or information reciting under which article appellant's license was suspended.
The judgment is reversed and the prosecution under the present complaint and information is dismissed.
Opinion approved by the Court.