Coates v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Lamar. Tried below before the Hon. R. R. Gaines. The indictment was for rape upon a girl of but little over eleven years of age. The opinion discloses such facts as are material to the rulings.
1Opinion of the CourtWhite, J.
The two primary objections insisted upon in this case are, 1st, that the indictment does not show upon its face that it was presented in the district court, or in fact in what court, if any, it was presented; and, 2d, that the minutes of the court, as shown by the transcript, nowhere disclose the fact that the presentment of the indictment by the grand jury was entered upon the minutes of the proceedings of the court, with the style of the action and the offense charged, as is required by law. Pasc. Dig., Art. 2858.
In support of the 1st objection we are cited to the case of Mathews v. The…
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