Atkins v. State

ROWE, Justice.

Appellant was convicted before a jury of the offense of theft of a trade secret and sentenced to confinement in the Texas Department of Corrections for a period of three years. Fourteen grounds of error are presented, but two of them are disposi-tive of this appeal. These two grounds assert the trial court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the indictment. Because we agree the indictment was fatally defective for the reasons appellant asserts, we reverse; and because the sufficiency of the evidence is not questioned, we remand.

According to the indictment, appellant…