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5 Tex. Ct. App. 462

Casey v. State

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided July 1, 1879

Court of Appeals of Texas · decided 1879-07-01

<p>Appeal from the County Court of Madison. Tried below before the Hon. W. C. Gibbs, County Judge.</p> <p>The information and conviction were for disturbing religious worship.</p>

Decided 1879-07-01

Winkler, J.

¶1The exception to the information should have been sustained, for the reason that it was not founded, upon any sworn complaint or affidavit, without which it had no foundation to stand upon.

¶2In prosecutions by information, a proper affidavit is as-essential as an information, and both should set out substantially the same offence against the law. Gen. Laws 1876, p. 20, sec. 8. The judgment is reversed, and, the objection going to the foundation of the prosecution, it is dismissed.

¶3Reversed and dismissed.

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