Case Name: John Henry Thomas v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1927-10-05
Citations: 107 Tex. Crim. 593
Docket Number: No. 11013
Parties: John Henry Thomas v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 107
Pages: 593–594

Head Matter:
John Henry Thomas v. The State.
No. 11013.
Delivered October 5, 1927.
The opinion states the case.
Hale, Scott, Carey & Hale, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Attorney, and Robert M. Lyles, Assistant State’s Attorney, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge. —
The offense is unlawfully carrying a pistol, the punishment confinement in the county jail for six months.
Appellant filed a motion in arrest of judgment, alleging in substance that the person making the complaint upon which the information was based did not make affidavit to the facts contained therein. The evidence heard by the court on the motion is without contradiction that the complaint was not sworn to before the County Attorney, and that the County Attorney's stenographer, in his absence, signed the County Attorney's name to the complaint and information.
A prosecution by information cannot be maintained in the absence of a written complaint duly verified. Art. 415, C. C. P., 1925; Thomas v. State, 296 S. W. 310.
The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Reversed and dismissed.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.