Lightfoot v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of knowingly making a false report to the Comptroller of Public Accounts of the State of Texas of the amount of motor fuel sold during the month of December, 1933, with a view and for the purpose of evading the payment of a tax thereon, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the State penitentiary for a term of two years.

The appellant first complains of the action of the trial court in declining to sustain his motion to quash the indictment for the following reasons: (a) Because the indictment fails to charge that…