Case Name: The State v. Roland Hill
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1872
Citations: 35 Tex. 348
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Roland Hill.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 35
Pages: 348–349

Head Matter:
The State v. Roland Hill.
Indictment for assault charged the offense to have been committed “on or about” a certain day. Held, that this was a sufficient averment of the time. The case of The State v. Elliot, 34 Texas, 148, to the same effect, cited with approval.
Appeal from Anderson. Tried below before the Hon. L. H. Cooper.
The opinion states the case. Another case for a breach of the peace was brought up by the State upon the same error, and is reversed in almost identical terms, and is therefore not reported. It was the case-of The State v. Tom Murchison.
W. Alexander, Attorney General, for the State.
T. T. Gammage, for the appellee.

Opinion:
Ogden, J.
The indictment in this case charged that the defendant, on or about the eighteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy, an assault did make, etc. We think the time of the commission of the offense is charged as specifically and as definitely as the statute requires.
This question was carefully considered and definitely settled at the last term of this court, in the case of The State v. Elliott. The court therefore erred in sustaining-the motion to quash, for that reason. The judgment is therefore reversed, and the cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.