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99 Tex. Crim. 337

269 S.W 1043

Toder v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided March 11, 1925

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · decided 1925-03-11

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1977

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Decided 1925-03-11

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LATTIMORE, Judge.

¶1 Appellant was convicted in the Criminal District Court of Harris county of burglary, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

¶2 The record is before us without statement of facts or bills of exception. An inspection of the indictment, however, reveals that it fails to allege that it was the intention of the appellant in the burglary of said house to take therefrom corporeal personal property “without the consent” of the alleged owner. This is held in Treadwell v. State, 16 Texas Crim. App. 644, and Fox v. State, 61 Texas Crim. Rep. 544, to be a necessary allegation. The indictment is fatally defective and, although! no motion to quash or in arrest of judgment appears in the record, it is incumbent upon this court to decline to approve a judgment based upon a fundamentally defective indictment.

¶3 The judgment of the trial court will be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

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