Ex parte Valdez, 54737
Decision Date | 03 May 1977 |
Docket Number | No. 54737,54737 |
Parties | Ex parte Raymond Garza VALDEZ. |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
DALLY, Commissioner.
This is a post conviction habeas corpus proceeding brought under the provisions of Article 11.07, V.A.C.C.P. The appellant was convicted of the offense of burglary under the provisions of the former Penal Code, Article 1390, V.A.P.C., 1925. His punishment, which was enhanced by two prior felony convictions, is imprisonment for life.
Under the former Penal Code an indictment for burglary with the intent to commit theft was fundamentally defective if it failed to allege that the accused intended to take the property without the consent of the owner. See Treadwell v. State, 16 Tex.Cr. 643 (1884); Fox v. State, 61 Tex.Cr.R. 544, 135 S.W. 570 (1911); Toder v. State, 99 Tex.Cr.R. 337, 269 S.W. 1043 (1925); cf. Martini v. State, 116 Tex.Cr.R. 58, 32 S.W.2d 654 (1930); Mitchell v. State, 118 Tex.Cr.R. 77, 37 S.W.2d 1018 (1931); Garrett v. State, 118 Tex.Cr.R. 71, 43 S.W.2d 120 (1931); Rodriguez v. State, 128 Tex.Cr.R. 262, 80 S.W.2d 988 (1935). Also see and compare Gonzales v. State, 517 S.W.2d 785 (Tex.Cr.App.1975), which holds that under the new Penal Code (1974) an indictment charging the offense of burglary with the intent to commit theft need not allege the elements of theft.
The indictment in this case failed to allege that the appellant intended to take the property without the consent of the owner. The indictment is fundamentally defective. Treadwell v. State, supra; Fox v. State, supra; Toder v. State, supra.
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