Legal Opinion

Hill v. State

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1875PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. H. Barksdale.

1Opinion of the Court

Devine, Associate Justice.

The indictment charged appellant with resisting an officer under article 334, Criminal Code, Paschal’s Dig., art. 1959. The defendant filed exceptions, which were overruled on the taial. He was found guilty, and his motion for a new trial being overruled, he has appealed. *

There is no assignment of errors in the transcript. The indictment is, however, so defective (failing as it does to charge the offense in plain and intelligible language) that the court should have sustained the exceptions. The indictment changed that “ defendant and others did, with force and…

2Cited by1 opinion

  1. Sullivan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1912

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