Mays v. State

OPINION

DICE, Judge.

The offense is robbery by assault; the punishment, twenty years.

The indictment charged that the appellant did by assault and violence fraudulently take from the person and possession of Irene Haynes “one (1) television set, and twenty and no/100 ($20.00) dollars current money of the United States.”

Appellant moved to quash the indictment on the ground that the allegation, “one (1) television set” was an insufficient description of the property, under the requirements of Art. 21.09, C.C.P.

Art. 21.09, supra, provides, in part, as follows:

“When it becomes necessary to describe…