Case Name: GREEN v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1949-03-16
Citations: 219 S.W.2d 687
Docket Number: No. 24280
Parties: GREEN v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 219
Pages: 687–688

Head Matter:
GREEN v. STATE.
No. 24280.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 16, 1949.
Rehearing Denied April 27, 1949.
Smith & Porter, by M. Neal Smith, all of Longview, for appellant.
Ernest S. Goens, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
GRAVES, Judge.
Appellant was charged with drunken driving and with being a second offender, and upon his conviction, he was given one year in the penitentiary.
There are no bills of exception in the record, but complaint is made relative to the correspondence between the allegation and the proof.
It is alleged that on May 20, 1948, appellant committed the second act of drunken driving, and that previous thereto in Cause No. 9097 in the- County Court of Gregg County, Texas, he had theretofore been convicted of an offense of like character and of the same nature, that is, drunken-driving, and that such conviction had become final prior to the time alleged in the present offense.
It is contended that the prior conviction has not.been properly shown and identified. We quote.from the statement of facts as follows :
"Mr. Shead: We will admit there wa.s a former conviction, whatever ' the record shows on that. . ,
"Court: Can you stipulate?
"Mr. Whitehead: Yes, we can stipulate it into the record.
"Court: Is that agreeable?.
"Mr. Shead: Yes,-sir.
"Mr. Whitehead: In Cause No. 9027 in the County Court of Gregg County, Texas, The State of Texas, vs. Weaver Green, filed the 4th day of March, 1948, the defendant, Weaver. Green, plead guilty to the charge of driving while intoxicated and was found guilty by the court and assessed a fine of seventy five dollars and costs, and that said fine of seventy five dollars and costs wa-s paid and that said conviction became final by the 20th day of May, 1948,—
"Court: Is that your agreement?
"Mr. Shead:; Yes, sir."
This above matter was also shown by the testimony of the arresting officer, and was also shown by appellant's own testimony which is sufficiently certain to show a prior conviction, but fails to show that such conviction was had in Cause No-. 9097, as alleged in the indictment.
It is necessary .that the proof shall correspond with the allegation set forth in the indictment. See 23 Tex.Jur. p. 681, sec. 67, and cases cited.
For a failure in such correspondence, the judgment is reversed and-the cause remanded.