Case Name: C. S. Alexander v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-02-21
Citations: 125 Tex. Crim. 371
Docket Number: No. 16395
Parties: C. S. Alexander v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 125
Pages: 371–371

Head Matter:
FEBRUARY 21, 1934
C. S. Alexander v. The State.
No. 16395.
Delivered February 21, 1934.
Reported in 68 S. W. (2d) 501.
The opinion states the case.
W. W. Ballard, of Wichita Falls, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Attorney, of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
The offense is assault with intent to rape; penalty assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
The record is before this court without statement of facts or bills of exception.
The indictment is defective to a degree that renders a reversal of the judgment necessary in that it fails to allege that the female, who was under the age of consent, was not the wife of the appellant. Throughout the history of the jurisprudence of this state, an indictment omitting such averment has been regarded as insufficient to charge the offense. See Bullock v. State, 54 S. W. (2d) 91, and precedents therein cited.
The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed, and prosecution ordered dismissed.