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SLAVIN v. STATE

No. 52606.

548 S.W.2d 30 (1977)

Frank SLAVIN, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 30, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dalton C. Gandy, Fort Worth, court appointed on appeal only, for appellant.

Tim C. Curry, Dist. Atty., and Marvin Collins, Asst. Dist. Atty., Fort Worth, Jim D. Vollers, State's Atty., and David S. McAngus, Asst. State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a conviction for the offense of indecency with a child; the punishment, which is enhanced by prior felony convictions, is imprisonment for life.

The appellant asserts that the indictment is fundamentally defective. We agree. The State attempted to allege the commission of this offense in exactly the same words that we held to be insufficient in Victory v. State, Tex.Cr.App.,

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