Court Opinion

ID: 4905023
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 05:55:18.279466+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:13:04.944158
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White, J.
The charge set out in the indictment is in these words: “ That heretofore, to wit, on the 1st day of December, A. D. 1876, in the county of Hamilton, and State of Texas, Walker Bush and C. C. Prater did wilfully disturb a congregation-assembled for religious worship, and conducting themselves in a lawful manner, by loud and vociferous talking and quarrelling.”
In our opinion, the indictment is sufficient under the statute of April 23, 1874. Gen. Laws Thirteenth Legislature, 43 ; Corley v. The State, 3 Texas Ct. App. 412. The court did not err in overruling defendant’s motion to quash.
The judgment must, however, necessarily be reversed, for the reason that the record nowhere discloses that the-defendant on the trial pleaded, or that a plea was interposed for him under the statute. Stacey v. The State, 3 Texas Ct. App. 121; Everett v. The State, 4 Texas Ct. App. 307.

Reversed and remanded.