Case Name: Dewey R. Hunt v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1929-12-18
Citations: 114 Tex. Crim. 256
Docket Number: No. 12828
Parties: Dewey R. Hunt v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 114
Pages: 256–257

Head Matter:
Dewey R. Hunt v. The State.
No. 12828.
Delivered December 18, 1929.
Rehearing denied State March 19, 1930.
Reported in 25 S. W. (2d) 1107.
The opinion states the case.
Chaney & Parmeter and Baskett & DeLee, all of Dallas, for appellant.
William McCraw, Cr. Dist. Atty., of Dallas, and A. A. Dawson of Canton, State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction for murder; punishment, death.
The indictment herein contains four counts, counts one and three charging that the accused killed deceased with malice aforethought. Counts two and four charge that the accused killed deceased voluntarily, — there being therein no allegation that the killing was upon malice aforethought. The verdict of the jury specifically finds appellant guilty under the second count in the indictment. Said count having failed to charge that the murder was with malice aforethought, can not be made the basis for a judgment of conviction carrying with it a penalty greater than five years' imprisonment in the penitentiary. Swilley v. State, No. 12792, opinion December 11, 1929.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.