Jackson v. State

ON APPELLANT’S MOTION FOR REHEARING

For the first time, on motion for rehearing, appellant contends:

“The indictment is void for the reason that it charges an offense in the year ‘one thousand nine hundred’ which date is beyond the Statute of Limitations, and the facts fail to prove said date.”

The indictment reads, in part, as follows:

“ . . . the Grand Jurors . itpon their oaths do present in and to the Criminal District Court No. 5, of Dallas County, at the April Term, A.D. 1970, of said Court that one John Gerard Jackson on or about the 16th day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand…