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44 Tex. 102

State v. Elmore

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1875

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1875-07-01

<p>Appeal from Delta. Tried below before the Hon. W. H. Andrews.</p>

Decided 1875-07-01

Ireland, Associate Justice.

¶1The objections urged to the indictment in this case are not tenable. No good reason is shown why the indictment is not good. The party said to have been assaulted is described as one-, a freedman, whose name is to the grand jurors unknown.”

¶2We think it sufficiently appears that the assault was made upon a person, and if his name was not known to the grand jury it was competent to describe the party as is done in this case.

¶3It may he said that the name is necessary to enable the defendant to plead the judgment in bar to another prosecution. To this it may he answered that indictments are not required, especially in misdemeanor cases, to be so minute as to dispense with other proof in pleading former conviction and acquittal. (Cochran v. The State, 26 Tex., 678; *103Prior v. The State, 4 Tex., 383; Phillips v. The State, 29 Tex., 235.)

¶4The court erred in setting the indictment aside, and the judgment is reversed.

¶5Reversed.

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