Vanvickle v. State

White, Presiding Judge.

Copying so much of the indictment upon which this case was prosecuted below as is necessary to illustrate the question of its sufficiency, we find it reads as follows, viz.:

“In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas:

The grand jurors of the State of Texas, charged, impaneled and sworn to diligently inquire into and true presentment make of all crimes and offenses against the law committed within the body of the county of Rains and State of Texas—that one John Vanvickle, late of the county of Rains and State of Texas, with force and arms in the county of…