Legal Opinion
Terry v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Decided July 28, 1971No. 43662PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ROBERTS, Judge.
The offense is placing and causing to be placed on individual packages of cigarettes a counterfeit cigarette tax stamp; trial was before a jury and the court assessed the punishment at five years.
The appellant’s first ground of error challenges the validity of the indictment because the indictment does not contain a copy of the counterfeit cigarette tax stamps in haec verba.
The second ground of error challenges the indictment on the grounds that it is “vague, general and indefinite and fails to *849allege the constituent elements of the offense sought to be charged.”
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2Cases cited28 opinions
- Becher v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1924
- Schepps v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1968
- Redding v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1954
- Baker v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1933
- Neill v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1949
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3Cited by74 opinions
- American Plant Food Corporation v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1974
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- DeVaughn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1988
- Daniels v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1988
- Ferguson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1981
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