Ronk v. State

OPINION

DAVIS, Commissioner.

Appeals are taken from the convictions of the appellants in a joint trial for the offense of injury to a child. Punishment, assessed by the jury, was twenty years each.

Appellants were found to be criminally negligent for failing to obtain necessary medical treatment for two-and-a-half year old Heath Lambert, resulting in his death. The prosecution was under V.T.C.A. Penal Code, Sec. 22.04, Injury to a Child.

At the outset, we are faced with the problem of a fundamentally defective indictment.

Omitting the formal parts, the indictments in these cases charge that “Nancy…