Case ID: sw_222/html/0246-01.html
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Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

SCHELLENGER v. STATE.
    (No. 5650.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 26, 1920.)
    War ¡§=>4— Disloyalty Act unconstitutional.
    The disloyalty Act passed by the fourth called session of the Thirty-Eifth Legislature (Acts 1918, c. 8) is invalid.
    Appeal from District Court, Cherokee County; L. D. Guinn, Judge.
    C. L. Schellenger was convicted under the Disloyalty Act, and appeals.
    Reversed, and prosecution dismissed.
    Israel Dreeben, of Dallas, for appellant.
    Alvin M. Owsley, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

In this case appellant was convicted under what is known as the Disloyalty Act, iiassed by the fourth called session of the Thirty-Fifth Legislature (chapter 8), and his punishment fixed at confine-' ment in the penitentiary for a term of two years. It.is not necessary to go into an extended statement of the facts in this case, or a discussion of the law relative thereto. In the case of Ex parte Ben. F. Meckel, reported in 220 S. W. 81, this court held the law under which this conviction was had invalid, and we have not had any occasion since to change our views regarding same.

The judgment of the lower court will be reversed, and the prosecution will be dismissed.