Case Name: MITCHELL v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1931-04-08
Citations: 37 S.W.2d 1018
Docket Number: No. 14224
Parties: MITCHELL v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 37
Pages: 1018–1018

Head Matter:
MITCHELL v. STATE.
No. 14224.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 8, 1931.
P. A. Dale, of Bonham, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Conviction for burglary; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
An unbroken line of authorities in this state lay down the rule that, when one is charged with burglary with intent to commit some felony, it is necessary that the indictment set out the constituent elements of the felony which the state charges the accused intended to commit after his entry into the building. Reed v. State, 14 Tex. App. 666; Treadwell v. State, 16 Tex. App. 643; O'Brien v. State, 27 Tex. App. 448, 11 S. W. 459. The indictment in the instant case fails to allege that appellant intended to take from the possession of its named owner corporeal personal property in said house. This is one of the necessary elements of the crime of theft; this being the felony which the state set up in its indictment appellant intended to commit after entry. There are many other authorities in point It seems unnecessary to attempt to analyze them.
The indictment appearing to be bad, the judgment will be reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.