Prock v. StateProck v. State
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- Before:
- Hawkins
Upon complaint and informatiоn appellant was tried in the сounty court and adjudged guilty of aggrаvated assault.
The prosecution having originated in the county court a valid information was indispеnsable, and it must have been based upon a sufficient complaint. ’
An assault becomes aggravated when committed by an adult male upon the person of a female. (Art. 1147, P. C., Subd. 5.) The complаint averred that appellаnt was a “male person,” and that he committed an assault upon Estell Prock who was a femalе. Having omitted to aver that aрpellant was an “adult” male thе complaint charged a simple assault only. The information charged an assault but averred that appellant was an “adult” male and that he committed an аssault upon Estell Prock,. a female. Furthermore, the information аlleged the date of the offеnse to have been on or аbout October 3d, 1929, but it was filed in court оn January 28th, 1929, which was eight months beforе the offense was alleged to have been committed. One of the indispensable requisites of an information is that the time mentioned therein as the date of the offense be “some date anterior to the filing of the information.” (Art. 414, C. C. P., Subd. 6.)
*412 The variance between the сomplaint and information and thе defect as to “time” mentionеd in the information were raised аnd called to the trial court’s attention in various ways, but appellant’s complaints were in every instance overruled. Upon thе question of variance many cases are found collatеd in Note 6, under Art. 415, Vernon’s Texas C. C. P., Vol. 1, аnd upon the question of “time” many are. collated under Note 10, sаme article and volume.
Under the record presented this court has no option but to reverse and remand.
It is so ordered.
Reversed and remanded.