Legal Opinion

Keenan v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 9, 1932No. 14988Published

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING.

HAWKINS, Judge.

— By proper motion in the court below appellant challenged the sufficiency of the complaint upon which the information was based. The judgment having been reversed for other reasons the point mentioned was not considered. Appellant in his motion for rehearing asks that we dispose of the question, insisting that if the complaint is bad the case should be ordered dismissed.

Our statute (article 222, C. C. P.), provides that a complaint will be sufficient, without regard to form, if it shows that “accused has committed some offense against the laws of the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1903
  2. Burnett v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1921
  3. Smith v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1926

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