Jonks v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The corrected information was in the following form: In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas, I, John B. McNamara, county attorney of McLennan County, in said State - of Texas, now here in the County Court of McLennan County, at the November term, A. D. 1916, thereof, do present this information founded upon the written affidavit of J. S. Dixon, herewith filed, which information charges and presents to said County Court that Ed Jonks in the County of McLennan…
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The corrected information was in the following form: In the name and by the authority of the State of Texas, I, John B. McNamara, county attorney of McLennan County, in said State - of Texas, now here in the County Court of McLennan County, at the November term, A. D. 1916, thereof, do present this information founded upon the written affidavit of J. S. Dixon, herewith filed, which information charges and presents to said County Court that Ed Jonks in the County of McLennan and State of Texas, heretofore on or about the 8th day of November, A. D. 1916, did then and there unlawfully and…
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
There are several questions suggested for revision, but under the view we take of the case but one is necessary to be considered as it disposes of this appeal as presented.
The information reads as follows: “Personally appeared before me the undersigned authority, J. S. Dixon, who, after being duly sworn, deposes and says that L. Jonks in the County of McLennan and State of Texas, heretofore on or about the 8th day of November, A. D. 1916, did then and there unlawfully and seriously threaten to take the life of a human being, towit, J. S. Dixon, and did then and there…
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