Court Opinion

ID: 5024439
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-10-01 04:37:42.030926+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:17:53.807456
License: Public Domain

WOODLEY, Judge.
The offense is selling beer during prohibited hours; the punishment, a fine of $200.
*152The complaint and information alleged that appellant sold beer to Rupert Lloyd Sessions on Sunday between the hours of 1 o’clock A.M. and 1 o’clock P.M.
The alleged purchaser did not testify.
A police officer testified to facts sufficient to sustain a finding that appellant sold 14 cans of beer to a man who identified himself to the officer as Ru/ord Lloyd Sessions.
The complaint and information alleging the sale of beer to Rupert Lloyd Sessions, evidence of a sale to Ruford Lloyd Sessions would be insufficient because of the variance, “Rupert” and “Ruford” not being idem sonans. 23 Tex.Jur. 685, Sec. 70; Chaney v. State, 59 Tex.Cr.R. 283, 128 S. W. 614; Albidrez v. State, 158 Tex.Cr.R. 229, 254 S.W.2d 522; Marshall v. State, 157 Tex.Cr.R. 340, 248 S.W.2d 931.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.