Terry v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted in a single trial before a jury of three cases of assault with intent to murder a police officer. Punishment in each case was assessed by the court at fifteen years.

In his first ground, appellant argues that the indictments in each of the three cases are fundamentally defective in that they fail to charge an offense under the applicable statute, Art. 1160a, Vernon’s Ann.P. C.

The indictment in our Cause No. 49,138 alleged that, in Dallas County, Jack Lyn-dois Terry

“On or about the 11th day of March in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine…