Court Opinion

ID: 9645228
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 21:17:23.562079+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:11:25.523019
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ONION, Presiding Judge,
concurring.
This appeal is from a conviction for capital murder committed during the course of *948robbery. See V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 19.03. Punishment was assessed at death in view of the jury’s affirmative answers to special issues nos. 1 and 2 submitted under Article 37.071(b)(1) and (2), V.A.C.C.P.
At the outset we are confronted with appellant’s contention that the trial court erred in overruling his timely presented motion to quash the indictment because it failed to allege the name of the robbery victim which was essential as part of the aggravation and to elevate the charged offense from murder (V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 19.02) to capital murder (V.T.C.A., Penal Code Sec. 19.03). We have only recently held that overruling a timely presented motion to quash a capital murder indictment where the robbery victim was not alleged therein was reversible error. Brasfield v. State, 600 S.W.2d 288 (Opinion on State’s Motion for Rehearing, 1980). See also King v. State, 594 S.W.2d 425 (Tex.Cr.App.1980).
I would adhere to Brasfield and reverse this conviction on that ground alone. I would not reach the question of whether the trial court also erred in not submitting the third special issue under Article 37.071(b)(3), V.A.C.C.P., or whether the appellant properly preserved such error under Articles 36.14 and 36.15, V.A.C.C.P. in effect at the time of appellant’s trial.
For the reasons stated, I concur.
ODOM, J., joins in this concurrence.