Case Name: Milton Carl McNIEL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1980-04-16
Citations: 599 S.W.2d 328
Docket Number: No. 58443
Parties: Milton Carl McNIEL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: Before ROBERTS, PHILLIPS and DALLY, JJ.
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 599
Pages: 328–332

Head Matter:
Milton Carl McNIEL, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 58443.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, Panel No. 3.
April 16, 1980.
Rehearing Denied June 11, 1980.
Roy Nicholas Hearne, Kilgore, for appellant.
Odis R. Hill, Dist. Atty. and Quita Russell, Alvin G. Khoury, Asst. Dist. Attys., Longview, and Robert Huttash, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
Before ROBERTS, PHILLIPS and DALLY, JJ.

Opinion:
OPINION
ROBERTS, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for aggravated robbery. Punishment was assessed at 20 years' imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. Appellant asserts that the trial court's charge to the jury authorized a conviction on a theory different than that alleged in the indict ment so that fundamental error is present. We agree and reverse.
The indictment alleged that appellant did "knowingly and intentionally place Hattie Hamm in fear of imminent bodily injury." In his charge to the jury, however, the court authorized a conviction upon a finding that appellant did "intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly cause bodily injury to said Hattie Hamm or the defendant then and there intentionally or knowingly threatened or placed said owner in fear of imminent bodily injury or death. . . . "
As we stated in Jones v. State, 566 S.W.2d 939 (Tex.Cr.App.1978),
"The trial court's charge, which authorized a conviction for either of the two different modes of committing aggravated robbery when only one was alleged, constituted reversible error."
The judgment is reversed, and the cause is remanded.
DALLY, J., dissents.
Before the court en bane.