State v. Flores
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from the Criminal Court of the city of San Antonio. Tried below before the Hon. V. P. Yan Antwerp. This was one of one hundred and seventy-five criminal causes transferred from the District Court Court of Bexar county to the Criminal Court of San Antonio by Special Orders 213, Headquarters of the Fifth Military District, State of Texas, dated at Austin, September 10,1869. The motion to quash set forth various causes, viz.: that the indictment did not allege that the…
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Appeal from the Criminal Court of the city of San Antonio. Tried below before the Hon. V. P. Yan Antwerp. This was one of one hundred and seventy-five criminal causes transferred from the District Court Court of Bexar county to the Criminal Court of San Antonio by Special Orders 213, Headquarters of the Fifth Military District, State of Texas, dated at Austin, September 10,1869. The motion to quash set forth various causes, viz.: that the indictment did not allege that the defendant knew the purpose for which the house was to be used; that it did not state to whom the defendant gave…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was an indictment for keeping a gaming hoard. The motion to quash should have been overruled. (See Brosshard v. The State, 25 Sup. Texas Reps., 209.)
*445The indictment was good without the signature of the foreman of the grand jury, according to The State v. Powell, 24 Texas, 135. The judgment helow is reversed and cause remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
2Cases cited1 opinion
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