Freeman v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

Upon his plea of guilty, appellant was convicted of attempting to commit the crime of burglary and his punishment assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for two years.

*237It is insisted that the indictment is so fundamentally defective that a conviction cannot be predicated thereon. The charging part of the indictment reads as follows:

"_ _ _____ _ _____ _____ _ _ _ _ _____ — — — — — — — — — — — that on or about the 8th day of October A. D. 1942, and anterior to the presentment of this indictment, in the County and State aforesaid John Freeman did, then and there…