Case Name: STOVALL et al. v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1935-05-22
Citations: 82 S.W.2d 975
Docket Number: No. 17591
Parties: STOVALL et al. v. STATE.
Judges: MORROW, P. J., absent
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 82
Pages: 975–975

Head Matter:
STOVALL et al. v. STATE.
No. 17591.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
May 22, 1935.
F. E. Mann, of Houston, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
By complaint and information the five above-named parties and L. O. Gilbert, Carl Mitchell, and Tom Richardson were jointly charged with aggravated assault and battery upon Emmet W. Bickford. The state dismissed the case as to Gilbert, Mitchell, and Richardson, and upon a joint trial before a jury Stovall and Laird were found guilty of aggravated assault and battery; Stovall's punishment being assessed at a fine of $100, Laird's punishment assessed at a fine of $50. Taylor, Britton, and Span were found guilty of simple assault and their punishment assessed at a fine of $5 each.
The record reveals a rather singular situation. In the complaint and information the injured party's name occurs 14 times, and in every instance it is stated as Emmet W. Bickford. The statement of facts shows that when the injured party was placed upon the witness stand during the trial he gave .his name as Emmet W. Beckwith. He is re-' ferred to by name 134 times in the statement of facts, and every time as Beckwith. No effort was made to show that he was also known as Bickford. If any point of variance was ever raised, the record fails to show it. The only similarity in the names appears to be that they both begin with the same letter of the alphabet. The variance is so marked that we cannot fail to take note of it. The state charged the assault to have been made upon Bickford, and has wholly failed to prove it. The case as averred is not made out.
The judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded, and it is so ordered.
MORROW, P. J., absent