Case Name: Ex parte Luis HERRERA, Appellant
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1980-12-10
Citations: 608 S.W.2d 683
Docket Number: No. 66218
Parties: Ex parte Luis HERRERA, Appellant.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 608
Pages: 683–684

Head Matter:
Ex parte Luis HERRERA, Appellant.
No. 66218.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.
Dec. 10, 1980.
Robert Huttash, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
OPINION
DOUGLAS, Judge.
This is a post conviction habeas corpus proceeding under Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P. The applicant was convicted in 1979 in cause number 17,354 in the 49th District Court of Webb County for the offense of murder.
The applicant contends that the trial court did not have jurisdiction to try the cause because of fundamental error in the indictment in which an impossible date for the commission of the offense was alleged.
The date of the offense was alleged to have been committed "on or about the 10th day of November A. D. 19 8 and anterior to the presentment of the indictment.... "
Many cases have held that an indictment is fundamentally defective if it alleges that the offense was committed on an impossible date. See Ex parte Millard, 587 S.W.2d 703 (Tex.Cr.App.1979), and Barnes v. State, 42 Tex.Cr.R. 297, 59 S.W. 882 (1900). It is impossible that appellant could have committed the offense in "19 8 ".
The relief sought is granted. The applicant is ordered discharged from custody in this cause.