Ward v. State

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

OPINION

The offense is murder; the punishment, death.

In addition to the grounds of error set forth in appellant’s brief his counsel, in oral argument, advanced the contention that the indictment was fatally defective and did not allege the name of the person alleged to have been murdered.

Under authority of Art. 40.09, Sec. 15, Vernon’s Ann.C.C.P., we directed the district clerk to send to this court for its inspection the original indictment.

*879An inspection of said original indictment furnished no aid except to account for the condition of the reproduction of the…