Ex parte Rogers
Decision Date | 31 October 1979 |
Docket Number | No. 62774,62774 |
Citation | 589 S.W.2d 132 |
Parties | Ex parte Jimmy Paul ROGERS. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
The requirement of a culpable mental state * applies to the offense of failing to stop and render aid (V.A.C.S., Article 6701d, Section 38), which this indictment sought to allege. Goss v. State, 582 S.W.2d 782 (Tex.Cr.App.1979). When an indictment fails to allege a required culpable mental state, it is fundamentally defective and habeas corpus relief will be granted. Ex parte Winton, 549 S.W.2d 751 (Tex.Cr.App.1977). The applicant will be granted habeas corpus relief because the indictment failed to allege the culpability element of the offense.
The conviction is set aside and the applicant is ordered released from any restraint imposed as a result of the indictment; the indictment is ordered dismissed.
* See V.T.C.A., Penal Code, Sec. 6.02.
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