Case Name: RAY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1926-01-20
Citations: 279 S.W. 457
Docket Number: No. 9805
Parties: RAY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 279
Pages: 457–457

Head Matter:
RAY v. STATE.
(No. 9805.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
January 20, 1926.)
A. B. Haworth, of Comanche, for appellant.
Sam D. Stinson, State’s Atty., of Austin, and Nat Gentry, Jr., Asst. State’s Atty., of Tyler, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORB, j.
Appellant was convicted in the county court of Comanche county for operating a motor vehicle without having attached thereto a license number plate and pair of license number plátes issued for said vehicle.
Article 820aa, Vernon's 1920 Statutes, which is article 810, P. C. 1925, forbids the operation of a motor vehicle without said plates only when operated on a public highway in this state. We find nothing in the complaint and information charging appel-ant with operating said vehicle on such public highway. The information and complaint are fatally defective.
The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.