Blaylock v. State

It is my opinion that when the trial court certified in the bill of exception that “even though the complaint and information were not changed and altered by the physical action of the County Attorney and the Court, they were changed and altered for all intent and purposes by the actual instructions of the Court and the County Attorney,” he certified reversible error, because a complaint cannot be amended. 12 Texas Jur., Sec. 252, p. 576; Wilson v. State, 6 Texas App. 154; Patillo v. State, 3 Texas App. 442; Lazenberry v. State, 50 Texas Cr. R. 357, 97 S.W. 87; Phariss v. State, 136 Texas Cr.…