Slavin v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of indecency with a child; the punishment, which is enhanced by prior felony convictions, is imprisonment for life.

The appellant asserts that the indictment is fundamentally defective. We agree. The State attempted to allege the commission of this offense in exactly the same words that we held to be insufficient in Victory v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 547 S.W.2d 1 (Decided January 21, 1976, opinion on motion for rehearing delivered November 3, 1976).

The indictment in the case at bar in pertinent part reads:

“. . . did…