Winn v. State

Citations

• 5 Tex. Ct. App. 621

Syllabus

<p>1. Indictment.—Printed norms for indictments may be used, the blanks being properly filled, without infringing the statutory requirement that an indictment shall be the “written statement of a grand jury,” etc. And a business card of the printers of such forms, put at the head of the blanks, however conspicuously displayed, or unseemly, is no part of the indictment, nor an infraction of the requirement that indictments must commence, “In and by the authority of the State of Texas.”</p> <p>2. Same — Nor does an unnecessary written caption constitute part of an indictment, or impair its validity.</p> <p>3. Assault with Intent to Murder.—In trials for this offence the jury-need not be instructed on the law of minor assaults, nor on self-defence, unless the evidence requires such instructions as part of the “law applicable to the case.”</p>