Case Name: ELMORE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-05-23
Citations: 73 S.W.2d 107
Docket Number: No. 16686
Parties: ELMORE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 73
Pages: 107–108

Head Matter:
ELMORE v. STATE.
No. 16686.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 23, 1934.
State’s Rehearing Denied in part and Granted in part June 20, 1934.
Davis & Davis, of Haskell, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is wife desertion; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary fon eighteen months.
It was alleged in the indictment that, the offense was committed on or about December 21, 1933. The indictment was returned into court and filed on June 6,1933, which; was more than six months before the offense was averred to have been committed. The sixth requisite of an indictment under the provisions of article 396, C. C. P., is that "the time mentioned must be some date anterior to» the presentment of the indictment, and not so. remote that the prosecution of the offense is-barred by limitation." The defect is fatal.. Eshom v. State, 120 Tex. Cr. R. 136, 48 S. W.. (2d) 631, and authorities cited.
The judgment is reversed, and the proseoution ordered dismissed.
PER CURIAM.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission! of Appeals has been examined by the judges-of the Court of Criminal Appeals and. approved by the court.