Case ID: sw2d_162/html/0419-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

W. G. SMITH, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
    No. 22100.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    May 27, 1942.
    Z. Van Dobson and Percy Foreman, both of Houston, for appellant.
    Spurgeon E. Bell, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, Presiding Judge.

Conviction is for exhibiting a gaming device, to-wit, a marble machine, for, the purpose of gaming; punishment being two years in the penitentiary.

Motion was made to quash the indictment upon the same grounds as were urged in E. F. Conklin v. State, Tex.Cr. App., 162 S.W.2d 416, this day decided.

The indictment in the present case was returned by the same grand jury which returned the indictment against Conklin. The records are the same in both cases so far as the attack upon the grand jury is concerned.

For the same reasons stated in the opinion in Conklin’s ease the indictment in the present case should have been quashed.

The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.