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350 S.W.2d 559

Davis v. State

Decided October 25, 1961

Relies on 149 Tex. Crim. 552 - Taylor v. State · Tate v. State

Decided 1961-10-25

DICE, Commissioner.

¶1The offense is aggravated assault; the punishment, 270 days in jail and a fine of $500.

¶2No statement of facts of the evidence adduced upon the trial accompanies the record.

¶3By Bill of Exception No. 1 it is certified that prior to announcing ready for trial, appellant filed a motion for severance, duly verified, praying that one C. L. Jones who then stood charged by information with an offense of aggravated assault growing out of the same transaction as that charged against appellant, be first tried. Said motion was by the Court overruled with an exception reserved by appellant.

¶4The motion complied with the statutory prerequisites of Art. 651, Vernon’s Ann. C.C.P. and should have been by the Court sustained. See Nichols v. State, 149 Tex. Cr.R. 530, 196 S.W.2d 925 and Chapa v. State, 164 Tex.Cr.R. 554, 301 S.W.2d 127.

¶5For the error in overruling the motion for severance, which error the State concedes in its brief, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶6Opinion approved by the court.

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