Legal Opinion

Moreno v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided February 12, 1964No. 36537PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge.

The offense is aggravated assault; the punishment, six months in jail.

The complaint alleges that the offense was committed on or about “the 7 day of March A.D. 19663.”

The allegation of an impossible date as the date of the commission of the offense will render the indictment, information or complaint fatally defective. Chadwick v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 252 S.W.2d 165, and other cases cited in 1 Branch’s Ann.P.C.2d Ed., p. 455, Sec. 454.

The complaint being fatally defective the judgment is reversed and the prosecution under the complaint and information herein is ordered…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Chadwick v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1952

3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Ex Parte GibsonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1990
  2. Ex Parte LeggCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  3. Ex Parte ChanceCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1980
  4. Ex Parte GibsonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1990
  5. Ex Parte MillardCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1979

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