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608 S.W.2d 683

Ex parte Herrera

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided December 10, 1980

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1980-12-10

Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently April 1989

3 state decisions

Relies on Ex Parte Millard · 42 Tex. Crim. 297 - Barnes v. State

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Decided 1980-12-10

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¶1OPINION

DOUGLAS, Judge.

¶2This is a post conviction habeas corpus proceeding under Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P. The applicant was convicted in 1979 in cause number 17,354 in the 49th District Court of Webb County for the offense of murder.

¶3The applicant contends that the trial court did not have jurisdiction to try the cause because of fundamental error in the indictment in which an impossible date for the commission of the offense was alleged.

¶4The date of the offense was alleged to have been committed “on or about the 10th day of November A. D. 19 8 and anterior to the presentment of the indictment.... ”

¶5Many cases have held that an indictment is fundamentally defective if it alleges that the offense was committed on an impossible date. See Ex parte Millard, 587 S.W.2d 703 (Tex.Cr.App.1979), and Barnes v. State, 42 Tex.Cr.R. 297, 59 S.W. 882 (1900). It is impossible that appellant could have committed the offense in “19 8 ”.

¶6The relief sought is granted. The applicant is ordered discharged from custody in this cause.

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