Goddard v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Van Zandt. Tried below before the Hon. J. S. Spinks, County Judge. The opinion discloses the nature of the case. The punishment imposed by a verdict of guilty was a fine of fifty dollars.
1Opinion of the Court
Willson, Judge.
This conviction was had upon an information which charges that the defendant “on the fifteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three,” did unlawfully carry a pistol, etc. The information was filed June 28, 1883.
It is an imperative requirement of the law that the time of the commission of the offence must be alleged, and that it must be a date anterior to the filing of the information. (Code Crim. Proc., Art. 430; Joel v. The State, 28 Texas, 642; Nelson v. The State, 1 Texas Ct. App., 556; Blake v. The State, 3 Texas Ct. App., 149;…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Joel v. StateTexas Supreme Court · 1866