Words used in a statute to define an offense need not be strictly pursued in the indictment; it is sufficient to use other words conveying the same meaning, or which include the sense of the statutory words.
Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 21.17
FOLLOWING STATUTORY WORDS
Acts 1965, 59th Leg., p. 317, ch. 722, Sec. 1, eff
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