Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 1926

Hart v. State

Hart v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided October 13, 1926 · Morrow
287 S.W. 244; 105 Tex. Crim. 216; 1926 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 487 (South Western Reporter)

Hart v. State

Opinion of the Court

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is burglary; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

In the indictment it is charged that the appellant entered the house of M. A. Ector, by force and without his consent, with the intent to take -from- his possession certain personal property.

The sufficiency of the evidence is challenged. A recital of it is deemed unnecessary, further "than to say that it was undisputed, that the alleged burglarized premises did not'belong to> and were not in the possession of the person named in the, indictment as the owner. The statute requires that the owner or possessor of the property be named in the indictment, and where property is in joint possession of the husband and wife, living together and occupying the same premises, the husband should be named as the possessor and owner. Under some circumstances it is permissible to charge the ownership in the wife, but the facts in the present case do not come within the excep *217 tions. See Peoples v. State, 90 Tex. Crim. Rep. 236, and numerous cases there cited.

The proof failing to correspond with the allegation, the judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.

Reversed and remanded.

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