HAWKINS v. STATE

No. 14761.

401 S.W.2d 301 (1966)

Milford HAWKINS, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

March 31, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Weldon H. Berry, Dixie & Schulman, Chris Dixie, Robert E. Hall, George C. Dixie, Houston, Jack Greenberg, James Nabrit, III, Charles H. Jones, Jr., New York City, for appellant.

No brief filed for appellee.


COLEMAN, Justice.

This is a companion case to the case of Johnson v. State of Texas, 401 S.W.2d 298, decided this day. The judgment in this case must be reversed because of the insufficient petition on which it was based for the reasons set out in that opinion.

The petition filed in this cause fails to allege the names and residences of the parents of Milford Hawkins or to state that these facts are unknown. Cecil Hawkins...

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