Chewning v. State

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Lamar county of incest, and his punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.

[1] There appears in the record an unfortunate controversy over an alleged change in the indictment herein, it being contended by appellant that, as originally returned, said indictment charged, in substance, that Hart Chewning “did then and there carnally know Golden Rea, the said Golden Rea then and there being the daughter of Pearle Chewning, his wife,” and that at some time undiscovered by appellant until after conviction said indictment was changed by…