Case ID: tex-crim_91/html/0421-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Frank Cole v. The State.
    No. 6859.
    Decided April 5, 1922.
    Intoxicating Liquors—Equipment—Repeal of Law.
    The repeal of the statute as to the possession of equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor makes it necessary that the judgment be reversed and the cause dismissed.
    Appeal from the District Court of Morris. Tried below before the Honorable R. T. Wilkinson.
    Appeal from a conviction of possession of equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquors; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      R. G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.
   HAWKINS, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted for having in his possession equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. Punishment was assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

Chapter 61, Acts Thirty-seventh Legislature, 1st and 2d Called Sessions, 1921. amending Chapter 78 of the Acts of the 36th Legislature, 2d Called Session. 1919, has been held to have repealed Section 1 of said Chapter 78 in so far as it made the possession of equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor a crime. See Vernon’s Ann. P. C., Article 16; Cox v. State, 90 Texas Crim. App.. 256; 234 S. W. Rep. 531; McCowan v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep. 264; 234 S. W. Rep. 887; Betts v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep., 203, 235 S. W. Rep. 597; Harris v. State, 236 S. W. Ren. 467; Kitchen v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep. 536; 236 S. W. Rep. 476; Stephenson v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep. 549; 236 S. W. Rep. 477.

The judgment of the trial court must be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

Reversed and dismissed.