Court Opinion

ID: 9768237
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 05:51:47.161195+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:30:38.461823
License: Public Domain

DALLY, Judge,
dissenting.
Error such as a court not obtaining jurisdiction because an indictment fails to allege an essential element of an offense may be raised for the first time post trial, but other defects in the indictment must be raised prior to trial by an objection specifically pointing out the alleged defect.
The majority hold that “the indictment in this case fails to meet . . . basic notice requirements” and the opinion also quotes the pretrial objection made in a motion to quash that the indictment was “vague and ambiguous.”
The error, if any, in this indictment was not so fundamental that it failed to give the trial court jurisdiction. The pretrial objection made is not sufficiently specific to point out the deficiencies which the majority now find in the allegations of the indictment.
I dissent.
DOUGLAS, TOM G. DAVIS and W. C. DAVIS, JJ., join in this dissent.