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39 Tex. 509

Burd v. State

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1873

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1873-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. J. R. Burnett. Burd was indicted for swindling, the indictment charging, “That J. C. Burd, in the county aforesaid, on the sixteenth day of September, 1872, being then and there in the employ of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company, a body corporate by the laws of said State, as assistant road master of said company, and it being then and there the duty of the said Burd, by virtue of his office and employment aforesaid, to issue checks or…

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Decided 1873-07-01

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Ogden, P. J.

¶1The appellant in this case was indicted for swindling the Houston & T. C. R. R. Co., and others, and one Robert Smith. Exceptions were filed to the indictment, but were overruled by the court. We think this was error. The indictment is prolix, vague and uncertain, and wholly insufficient to sustain-any judgment. The verdict of the jury is simply guilty, but of what it does not inform us. If swindling, then who was swindled—the railroad company, Robert Smith, or the other persons referred to in the indictment \ The court charged the jury that the defendant was indicted for swindling the railroad company, while the Attorney-General contends that he was indicted for swindling Robert Smith. But we are clearly of the opinion that he was not legally indicted for swindling any one, and that the court erred in not sustaining the exceptions to the indictment. The judgment is therefore reversed and the case dismissed.

¶2Revebsed akd dismissed.

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