Case Name: Billie Rodger Florence v. State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1954-11-03
Citations: 160 Tex. Crim. 591
Docket Number: No. 27,139
Parties: Billie Rodger Florence v. State
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 160
Pages: 591–593

Head Matter:
Billie Rodger Florence v. State
No. 27,139.
November 3, 1954
Rehearing Denied December 15, 1954
Clyde & Barnes, by Al Clyde, Fort Worth, for appellant.
Howard M. Fender, Criminal District Attorney, Eugene D. Biddle, Hugh F. King, and Conard Florence, Assistants District Attorney, Ft. Worth, and Wesley Dice, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.

Opinion:
WOODLEY, Judge.
The conviction is for aggravated assault with a motor vehicle; the punishment, one year in jail.
Appellant complains of the overruling of his motion to quash the information. The information alleged that appellant '"did drive and operate a motor vehicle, to-wit: an auto - obile," while the complaint alleged that he drove and operated "a motor vehicle, to-wit: an autmobile."
Bad spelling will not vitiate the complaint or information if the sense is not affected and the meaning cannot be mistaken. Graham v. State, 119 Texas Cr. Rep. 14, 46 S.W. 2d 709; Murphey v. State, 109 Texas Cr. Rep. 524, 5 S.W. 2d 988.
The complaint and information each show the misspelling of the word automobile, but it clearly appears that it was meant in each instance to allege that the motor vehicle was an automobile. No variance is therefore shown.
There is no statement of facts, in the absence of which the remaining bill cannot be appraised.
The judgment is affirmed.