Case ID: sw2d_286/html/0938-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "\n      MORRISON, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Floyd EWING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 28024.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Feb. 15, 1956.
    R. E. Murphey, Coleman, Runge, Harde-man, Smith & Foy, by Earl W. Smith, San Angelo, for appellant.
    Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.
   MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is the possession of whiskey-in a dry area, with a prior offense of like character alleged for the purpose of enhancement; the punishment, 30 days in jail and a fine of $500.

Our able State’s Attorney has confessed error because of the absence of any proof that the appellant was the same person who was convicted in the prior case plead for enhancement.

Such proof is requisite. Gaines v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 274 S.W.2d 397.

The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.