Case ID: sw2d_91/html/0743-01.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

SOILEAU v. STATE.
    No. 18062.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 4, 1936.
    Louis M. Hitch, of Longview, for appellant.
    Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.
   HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for possessing a still for the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment being one year in the penitentiary.

After conviction, the law (Pen.Code 1925, art. 666 et seq., as amended) under which the prosecution was had was repealed (Vernon’s Ann.P.C. art. 666—49). See Meadows v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 88 S.W.(2d) 481.

The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.