Kulhanek v. State
Decision Date | 10 October 1979 |
Docket Number | No. 3,59022,Nos. 59021,s. 59021,3 |
Citation | 587 S.W.2d 424 |
Parties | Clarence Victor KULHANEK, Jr., Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee |
Court | Texas Court of Criminal Appeals |
Barry J. O'Keefe, Houston, for appellant.
Carol S. Vance, Dist. Atty., Calvin A. Hartmann and Veronica E. Morgan, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.
Before DOUGLAS, ROBERTS and DALLY, JJ.
These are appeals from orders revoking probation in two causes, No. 252739 1 and No. 255801. 2 On April 25, 1977, appellant was granted two ten-year probationary terms after pleading guilty to the offenses of forgery (No. 252739) and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle (No. 255801). On September 27, 1977, the State filed motions to revoke appellant's probations in the respective causes, alleging, among other things, that appellant committed the offense of theft in violation of condition (a) of each probation, namely, that he commit no offense against the laws of this or any other state.
Appellant urges that the court abused its discretion by revoking his probations on insufficient evidence that he actually violated the terms and conditions thereof, as alleged. Finding no abuse of discretion, we affirm the court's judgment revoking appellant's probation in Cause No. 255801 (Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle); however, with respect to Cause No. 252739 (Forgery) we find the indictment fundamentally defective which requires reversal in the interest of justice. 3 Article 40.09(13), Vernon's Ann.C.C.P.
The validity of an indictment such as the one in the present case, was recently considered by this Court in Minix v. State, 579 S.W.2d 466, 467, delivered January 24, 1979 (State's Motion for Rehearing overruled with written opinion, delivered April 25, 1979). In Minix, supra, it was stated:
We find that the present indictment suffers from the same infirmity which rendered the Minix indictment fundamentally defective in that the present indictment fails to allege that the instrument in question purports to be the act of another Who did not authorize the act. See also Payne v State, 567 S.W.2d 4 (Tex.Cr.App.1978). Therefore, appellant's conviction in Cause No. 252739 is reversed and the prosecution under this invalid indictment is ordered dismissed.
With respect to appellant's contention that the court abused its discretion in revoking probation in Cause No. 255801, we note that the State, at the probation revocation hearing, introduced sufficient evidence to support the following findings: Two separate checks, one dated July 29, 1977 (in the amount of $680.00) and the other dated August 3, 1977 (in the amount of $900.00), each payable to the order of the appellant were deposited into appellant's savings account at the Northshore Bank in Houston; the purported drawer of these checks testified that she never issued the checks personally, nor authorized anyone else to do so in her behalf; a "questioned documents expert," duly qualified as such, confirmed that it was appellant's signatures which appeared on two withdrawal slips, one dated August 3, 1977, requesting withdrawal of $660, and the other dated August 8, 1977, requesting the withdrawal of $900; the Northshore Bank honored both withdrawal requests; and, the two checks previously credited to appellant's savings account were returned to the Northshore Bank unpaid.
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