Curtis v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The following statement taken from appellant’s brief is substantially correct: Appellant was tried in the County Court of Parker County at the December term, 1903, upon an information and complaint charging him with unlawfully gaming, to wit, unlawfully playing at a game with cards, on the 26th day of November, 1903. At the trial in the county court the defendant took the stand in his own behalf and testified that he did not play a game of cards, nor did he see a game of…
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The following statement taken from appellant’s brief is substantially correct: Appellant was tried in the County Court of Parker County at the December term, 1903, upon an information and complaint charging him with unlawfully gaming, to wit, unlawfully playing at a game with cards, on the 26th day of November, 1903. At the trial in the county court the defendant took the stand in his own behalf and testified that he did not play a game of cards, nor did he see a game of cards played on the 26th day of November, 1903, as alleged in the information and complaint. One Tom Hullum, a negro, who…
1Opinion of the Court
HENDERSON, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of perjury, and his punishment, assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for a. term of two years; hence this appeal.
Appellant made a motion to quash the indictment on various grounds, among others, that the indictment alleged appellant was tried on an information presented in the county court, and it should have alleged he was tried on an information and complaint. We do not understand that it is necessary to allege the complaint. Of course, information must be based on a complaint, but the trial is on the information, and in the absence of some…
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