Drake v. State

State, 686 S.W.2d 617 (Tex.Cr.App., delivered this day).

APPENDIX

Before the new penal code with its conforming amendments to the code of criminal procedure became effective, one statutory rule for pleading by the State was that provided by the 1965 version of Article 21.24, V.A.C.C.P., viz:

“An indictment, information or complaint may contain as many counts charging the same offense as the attorney who prepares it, acting in good faith, may think necessary to insert, but may not charge more than one offense. An indictment or information shall be sufficient if any one of its counts be…