Don Howard Standley, Appellant v. the State of Texas, Appellee

Summary

The Court reversed the conviction and remanded the case, holding that the indictment was fundamentally defective for failing to allege the value of the property, rendering the conviction void ab initio and subject to habeas corpus attack. It also overruled Ex parte Roberts. A dissent argued that overruling Roberts was unnecessary, while a concurrence agreed with the majority on the indictment defect.