Patterson v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property. The sole question to be decided is whether or .not the court erred in permitting the district attorney to amend the indictment as he did. The indictment found by the grand jury is as follows:

“In the name and by the authority of the state of Texas, the grand jurors, duly selected, organized, and impaneled as such for the county of Erath, state of Texas, at the March term, A. D. 1918, of the district court for said county, upon their oaths present in and to said court; that on or about the 24th day of September A.…