Court Opinion

ID: 4900719
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-03 00:44:16.500168+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:12:54.959149
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ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.
BEAUCHAMP, Judge.
On considering the motion for rehearing in this cause, we have re-examined the record and observe the following language of the complaint: “I, Harry G. Wood, being duly sworn do state upon my oath that I have good reason to believe that in said County, of Harris and State of Texas, heretofore on or about the 8th day of April, A. D., 1942, W. A. Adkins did then and there invite, solicit, procure and allure a female, to-wit Katherine Rutland, to be at a certain place to-wit: at a house, room and place located at 211 1/2 Milam Milam Street, in the city of Houston, Harris County, Texas, for the purpose of meeting and having unlawful sexual intercourse with a male person.”
It will be observed that it is nowhere alleged that affiant “does believe” the things set out in the complaint. The fact that he had good reason to believe it is not sufficient: Art. 222 Sub. 2 C. C. P., Branch’s P. C. Sec. 478, Cook v. State, 132 S. W. (2d) 404, Greeson v. State, 147 S. W. (2d) 804. This *289defect was not called to our attention on original submission and was overlooked by us. While no complaint has been made in the motion for rehearing, we nevertheless consider it a fatal defect requiring that the motion for rehearing be granted and the judgment of the trial court be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed, which is accordingly done.