Court Opinion

ID: 4904871
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:55:01.748172+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:04.477611
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Winkler, J.
The appellant, it seems, was. tried in the County Court on a plea of not guilty, together with a plea of a former acquittal, and also of a former conviction for the same offense.
On the trial, the accused was found guilty, and a fine assessed against him of $25. It is complained in the assignment of errors that the jury failed to find whether the defendant’s pleas in bar were true or untrue; and we are referred to article 3021 of the Digest, and to Deaton v. The State, 44 Texas, 446, in support of the position.
The requirement of the Code of Criminal Procedure, article 626 (Pasc. Dig., art. 3021), seems to be imperative that, when there are special pleas upon which the jury are to find, they must say in their verdict that the matters alleged in such pleas are. either true or untrue.
The error might have been remedied if attended to at the proper time ; but as this was not done,, it is fatal to the conviction, and, therefore, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.