Jones v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the County Court of Victoria. Tried below before Hon. J. L. Dupree, County Judge. Conviction for fornication; fine 150. The indictment charges-as follows: “That one George Jones, a man, and one Patsy Johnson, a woman, late of said county, on the 1st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred' and eighty-nine, in Victoria County, Texas, and continuously for two years prior to that date, did then and there have habitual carnal intercourse with…
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Appeal from the County Court of Victoria. Tried below before Hon. J. L. Dupree, County Judge. Conviction for fornication; fine 150. The indictment charges-as follows: “That one George Jones, a man, and one Patsy Johnson, a woman, late of said county, on the 1st day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred' and eighty-nine, in Victoria County, Texas, and continuously for two years prior to that date, did then and there have habitual carnal intercourse with each other, the said George Jones and said Patsy Johnson not then and there being married to each other, but both the…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, Judge.
Under our code two modes of committing the offense of fornication are designated: 1. By living together and carnal *348intercourse with each other of a man and woman, both being unmarried. 2. By such man and woman having habitual carnal intercourse with each other, without living together. Penal Code, art. 837.
In this case the indictment charges that the man and woman did have habitual carnal intercourse with each other, but does not allege that they lived together at the time of having such intercourse, nor that they had such intercourse without living together.
It was doubtless…
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