Case Name: Ed Moody v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1909-06-02
Citations: 56 Tex. Crim. 393
Docket Number: No. 4070
Parties: Ed Moody v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 56
Pages: 393–393

Head Matter:
Ed Moody v. The State.
No. 4070.
Decided June 2, 1909.
Aggravated Assault—Information—Complaint—Variance.
Where in a prosecution for aggravated assault, the information in describing the offense used the name of Ed Moody and the complaint that of John Moody, there was a fatal variance.
Appeal from the County Court of Wichita. Tried below before the Hon. M. F. Yeager.
Appeal from a conviction of aggravated assault; penalty, a fine of $50.
The opinion states the case.
Montgomery & Britain, for appellant.
On question of insufficiency of information: Robinson v. State, 25 Texas Crim. App., 111.
F. J. McCord, Assistant Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
BROOKS, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of an aggravated assault and his punishment assessed at a fine of $50.
The information in this ease charges appellant with making an aggravated assault upon W. J. Sheldon, who was then and' there incompetent from physical defects produced by the loss of the right hand, to such an extent as to render the said W. J. Sheldon comparatively helpless in a personal conflict with the said Ed Moody. The complaint says to such an extent as to render the said W. J. Sheldon comparatively helpless in a personal conflict with the said John Moody. .This makes a fatal variance between the complaint and the information.
The judgment is accordingly reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.