Lead Opinion
Appellant was convicted of the offense of an assault with a prohibited weapon, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the state pеnitentiary for a term of two years.
The prosecution was initiated under Article 1151, P. C., which provides as follows:
“If any person shall willfully commit an assault or an assаult and battery upon another with a pistol, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, speаr or knuckles made of any metal or made of any hard substance, bowie knife, or any knife manufactured or sold for the purpose of offense or dеfense, while the same is being carried unlawfully by the person committing said assault, hе shall be deemed guilty of an assault with a prohibited weapon and upon сonviction shall be punished by a fine not to exceed two hundred dollars or by imprisonment in jail not to exceed two years, or by confinement in the penitentiary for not more than five years.”
The indictment in this case, omitting the formal pаrts, reads as follows:
“* * * That one, WILL McKinney on the 3rd day of May, in the year of our Lоrd One Thousand Nine Hundred and 45 with force of arms, in the County and State aforesaid, while then and there unlawfully carrying on and about his person a pistol, in and upon Dаvid Eugene Foster, did wilfully commit an assault; contrary to the form of the statute in such сases made and provided,” etc.
It is apparent from the allegations in the indictment that
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it charges nothing more than a simple assault since it fails to charge that appellant committed an assault upon Foster with the pistol, a prohibited weapon. In the case of Renеau v. State,
In reviewing the record we also find a variance between the allegations in the indictment and the proof. In the indictment it is charged that appеllant committed an assault upon David Eugene Foster. The assaulted party testified that his name was Eugene Foster Davis. This constitutes a fatal variance. Sеe Stovall v. State,
From what we have said, it follows that the judgment of conviction must be reversed and the cause remanded, and it is so ordered.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the Judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the Court.
Addendum
ON STATE’S MOTION FOR REHEARING.
The State has filed a motion for rehearing pointing out that the indictment as copied in the transcript before us at the time the original opinion was prepared by inadvertence hаd omitted therefrom an allegation that the assault was committed with the pistоl alleged to have been unlawfully carried. The clerk has forwarded a supplemental transcript containing the indictment which properly chargеs the offense, and that part of our opinion holding to the contrary is no lоnger pertinent.
However, the question of variance as to the name of the injured party remains in the case. The State’s motion refers us to many instances in the statement of facts where the injured party was referred to as “Foster.” This is true, and that was his given name, but the injured party himself testified that his name was “Eugene Foster Davis,” and not “David Eugene Foster,” as alleged. When the injured party testified that his surname was Davis it was sufficient to put the State on notice *455 that it was confronted with a variance1 unless by proof it could bring- itself within that provision of Art. 401 C. C. P. as fоllows:
“When a person is known by two or more names, it shall be sufficient to state either name.”
The witnesses who did testify for the State appear not to havе been well acquainted with the injured party, and no evidence is found showing that hе was known both as Foster and Davis. See Johnson v. State,
The motion for rehearing is overruled.