Case ID: tex-crim_90/html/0399-01.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

Will Francis v. The State.
    No. 6493.
    Decided December 7, 1921.
    Intoxicating Liquor — Possession—Repeal—Sale.
    The Acts of the First and Second Called Session of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature, in effect, repealed that provision of the law making the possession of intoxicating liquor an offense, except for the purpose of sale. Following Cox recently decided and judgment is reversed and the cause dismissed.
    Appeal from the District Court of Smith. Tried below before the Honorable J. R. Warren.
    Appeal from a conviction of the possession of intoxicating liquor; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
    The opinion states the case.
    
      Gentry & Gentry, for appellant.
    
      R. G. Storey, Assistant Attorney General, for. the State.
   HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted for having in his possession intoxicating liquor. The Acts of the First and Second Called Sessions of the Thirty-seventh Legislature, page 233, in effect, repealed that provision of the law making the possession an offense, and it is only where the possession is for the purpose of sale that the act is now denounced by the Legislature. Cox v. State, and other cases decided at the present term, but not yet reported.

It, therefore, becomes necessary for this court to reverse the judgment of the trial court and order the prosecution under the present indictment dismissed. Petit v. State, No. 6510, 336, decided November 23, 1921.

Reversed and dismissed.