Raven v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

On an indictment charging the felony offense of compelling prostitution, 1 appellant was convicted of the misdemeanor offense of engaging in prostitution. 2 Punish ment was assessed at a fine of two hundred dollars.

Appellant’s sole ground of error reads: “The trial court committed reversible error by instructing the jury to consider the offense of engaging in prostitution because engaging in prostitution is not a lesser included offense of compelling prostitution.”

The indictment charged that on or about February 6, 1974, in Travis County, appellant and another “did…