Brown v. State

Citations

• 26 Tex. Ct. App. 540
• 10 S.W. 112
• 1888 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 219

Syllabus

<p>Tleading—Indictment—Unlawfully Acting as Insurance Agent. —It is an established rule of criminal pleading that the facts which constitute the offense must be directly and explicitly averred; that inference and intendment can not be indulged in testing the sufficiency of an indictment or information, and that the indictment or information must allege' everything that is necessary to be proved. To be sufficient to charge the offense of unlawfully acting as an insurance agent as that offense is defined by the act of July 9, 1879. indictment or information must allege that the company for which the accused acted as agent was an insurance company.</p>