Case Name: BURTON v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1938-06-01
Citations: 117 S.W.2d 107
Docket Number: NO. 19784
Parties: BURTON v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 117
Pages: 107–107

Head Matter:
BURTON v. STATE.
NO. 19784.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 1, 1938.
John J. Watts, of Crane, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is theft, a misdemeanor.; penalty assessed at confinement in .the cqunty jail for one day and a fine of fifty dollars.
Upon an indictment filed in the District Court of Crane County, the appellant was convicted m the County Court of said county of a misdemeanor.
In our examination of the transcript, we note the statement of the County- Clerk to the effect that the indictment was lost during the trial of the case and for that, reason is not copied into the record. Under the terms of Art. 841, C.C.P., a copy of the indictment or information must appear in the transcript. See. Vernon's Ann.Tex.C.C.P., Vol. 3, p. 2 19, note 3.
The absence from the record of the original indictment, or one shown to have been legally substituted, requires a reversal-.of the judgment of conviction, and it is so ordered.