Nadine Oliver v. State Texas

The appellant was charged by two informations with practicing dentistry without a license. After a joint trial with her husband who was also charged with the same offense, appellant was found guilty in both causes. Punishment in both cases was assessed at a $1,000 fine and nine months confinement in the Tarrant County Fail. On appeal, the Fort Worth Court of Appeals held that the information in Cause Number 0157593 was fundamentally defective because it omitted a portion of an element of the offense. Appellants conviction in that cause number was reversed and dismissed. The Court of Appeals then held that, because the punishment assessed by the jury was predicated upon a finding of guilt in both cause numbers, appellants conviction in Cause Number 0157592 was reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial. Oliver v. State, 644 S.W.2d 135 (Tex.App.-Ft. Worth 1982). We granted the States petition for discretionary review to consider these holdings.