State v. Carter

OPINION ON STATE’S AND APPEL-LEE’S PETITIONS FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

CAMPBELL, Judge.

Appellee, Homer Carter, was charged by information with driving while intoxicated. Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat. art. 6701Z-l(b). He subsequently filed a timely motion to quash the information on the ground it failed to provide adequate notice of the offense charged. After a hearing, the trial court granted appellee’s motion and dismissed the information. The State appealed the trial court’s ruling under Tex.Crim.Pro. Code art. 44.01(a)(1), and the Fourteenth Court of Appeals reversed, holding that the information was…