Court Opinion

ID: 3908194
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 09:37:19.240738+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:32.929500
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Conviction for attempt at burglary; punishment, two years in the penitentiary.
For two reasons we are compelled to hold the indictment in this case bad. Same contains no averment of the fact that appellant attempted to enter the store with the fraudulent intent to take therefrom, etc. That an indictment charging the offense herein involved must contain the allegation of such fraudulent intent is affirmed in Newman v. State,113 Tex. Crim. 517.
We further note that said indictment does not allege that appellant attempted to break and enter the house with the intent to fraudulently take therefrom corporeal personal property therein being and belonging to J. T. Leeson, — from the possession of said Leeson, etc. There should be an allegation in the indictment that the property was then in the possession of Leeson and that appellant intended to take it from such possession.
For the defects mentioned, the judgment must be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Judgment reversed and prosecution dismissed.