Case Name: Aaron Everett JONES, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1960-11-30
Citations: 342 S.W.2d 585
Docket Number: No. 32519
Parties: Aaron Everett JONES, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 342
Pages: 585–587

Head Matter:
Aaron Everett JONES, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 32519.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Nov. 30, 1960.
Rehearing Denied Jan. 25, 1961.
Royce E. Ball, Lubbock, for appellant.
George E. Gilkerson, Dist. Atty., Fred E. West, Asst. Dist. Atty., Lubbock, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
• BELCHER, Commissioner.
The conviction is for an assault with a prohibited weapon; the - punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
The testimony of the state shows that the appellant while unlawfully carrying a pistol wilfully made an assault with said pistol upon the alleged assaulted party.
The appellant did not testify or offer any evidence.
It is contended that the trial court erred in refusing appellant's 'motion to quash the indictment on the ground that it is duplicitous because it charges in the same count the offenses of assault with a prohibited weapon and burglary.
The indictment sufficiently charges the appellant with an assault with a prohibited weapon, a pistol, and it further alleges in the same count that he shot the pistol into the house in which the assaulted party was situated.
The offense of burglary is constituted by the unlawful entry into a house. Such entry may be committed by the discharge of fireL arms into a house with the intent to injure any person therein. The indictment herein does not allege any unlawful entry into a house. The shooting of a pistol into a house by shooting into the -floor while inside the house, as the testimony shows in this case, does not constitute an unlawful entry into the house.
It is concluded that the indictment does not in the same count charge two distinct offenses, and the allegations that he shot into the house may be rejected as surplus-age. 1 Branch 2d 505, Sec. 526; Schwarz v. State, 136 Tex.Cr.R. 260, 124 S.W.2d 392; Odle v. State, 139 Tex.Cr.R. 288, 139 S.W.2d 595.
Appellant complains of the court's refusal to charge the offenses of aggravated assault and simple assault. These offenses are not included under the provisions of Art. 1151, V.A.P.C., as the article carves out a particular type of assault and makes it a distinct offense. 6 Tex.Jur.2d 271, Sec. 33; Brinkley v. State, 82 Tex.Cr.R. 150, 198 S.W. 940.
The evidence is sufficient to support the conviction and no error appearing, the judgment is affirmed.
Opinion approved by the Court.