Case Name: Roy Cleaver JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1976-04-07
Citations: 535 S.W.2d 184
Docket Number: No. 51748
Parties: Roy Cleaver JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 535
Pages: 184–185

Head Matter:
Roy Cleaver JONES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 51748
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 7, 1976.
Don W. Rogers, Jr., Houston (Court appointed on appeal), for appellant.
Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., James C. Brough, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, Jim D. Vollers, State’s Atty., and David S. McAn-gus, Asst. State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
OPINION
DALLY, Commissioner.
This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of robbery by assault in violation of our former Penal Code; the robbery was committed on April 24, 1973; punishment was assessed by the court at imprisonment for 25 years.
We are confronted at the outset with a fundamentally defective indictment. As in Lucero v. State, 502 S.W.2d 128 (Tex.Cr. App.1973) (case one), the indictment here fails to allege to whom the property allegedly taken belonged. For this reason, the indictment is fundamentally defective, and the conviction must be reversed. Bouie v. State, 528 S.W.2d 587 (Tex.Cr.App.1975); Arline v. State, 529 S.W.2d 73 (Tex.Cr.App. 1975); French v. State, 531 S.W.2d 613 (Tex.Cr.App.1975); Batro v. State, 531 S.W.2d 614 (Tex.Cr.App.1975).
The judgment is reversed and the prosecution under this indictment is ordered dismissed.
Opinion approved by the Court.