Case Name: JANKS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-04-25
Citations: 196 S.W. 182
Docket Number: No. 4454
Parties: JANKS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 196
Pages: 182–183

Head Matter:
JANKS v. STATE.
(No. 4454.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 25, 1917.
On Motion for Rehearing, June 13, 1917.)
1. Indictment and Information <&wkey;70 — Information— Sufficiency.
An information, alleging that the prosecuting witness stated accused threatened to take his life, etc., held insufficient because not positively alleging accused’s commission of offense, but only that affiant charged him with it.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Indictment and Information, Cent. Dig. § 192.]
On Motion for Rehearing. .
2. Homicide &wkey;>256 — Threats to Kill — Sufficiency of Evidence.
Evidence that accused stated he would get his gun and kill an officer before allowing him to seize property under writ of sequestration, which was denied by defendant, held not to sustain a conviction for making threats to kill.
[Ed. Note. — For other cases, see Homicide, Cent. Dig. § 542.]
Appeal from McLennan County Court; James P. Alexander, Judge.
L. Janks was convicted of making threats to kill, and appeals.
Reversed and remanded.
John L. Poulter, of Ft. Worth, for appellant. E. B. Hendricks, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
DAVIDSON, P. J.
There are several questions suggested for revision, but under the view we take of the case but one is .necessary to be considered as it disposes of this appeal as presented.
The information reads as follows:
"Personally appeared before me the undersigned authority J, S. Dixon, who, after being duly sworn deposes and says that L. Janks in the county of McLennan and state of Texas, heretofore on or about the Sth day of November A. D. 1916, did then and there unlawfully and seriously threaten to take the life of a human being, to wit, J. S. Dixon, and did then and there unlawfully and seriously threaten to inflict serious bodily injury upon a human being, to wit, J. S,. Dixon, against the peace and dignity of the state."
This information is not sufficient. The question having been passed upon several times, we deem it unnecessary to discuss it, but cite the authorities' which are in point. Zinn v. State, 68 Tex. Cr. R. 149, 151 S. W. 825, and Compton v. State, 71 Tex. Cr. R. 7, 158 S. W. 515.
The information being insufficient, the judgment is reversed, and the cause remanded.
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