Case ID: sw_235/html/1094-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "LATTIMORE, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LEE v. STATE.
    (No. 6494.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    Dec. 21, 1921.)
    Intoxicating liquors <©=>132 — Law punishing possession held repealed.
    The law punishing the offense of possessing intoxicating liquor was so amended by the First Called Session of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature (Laws 1921, c. 61), as to amount to a repeal of the statute.
    Appeal from District Court, Smith County; J. R. Warren, Judge.
    Charlie Lee was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
    Reversed, and cause ordered dismissed.
    Butler, Price & Maynor, of Tyler, for appellant.
    R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   LATTIMORE, J.

Appellant was convicted in the district court of Smith county of the offense of possessing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary. '

The law defining and punishing this offense was so amended by the recent Special Session of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature (chapter 61) as to amount to a repeal of the statute, and for this reason this cause must be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed. Cox v. State (No. 6423) 234 S. W. 531; Petit v. State (No. 6510) 235 S. W. 579, decided at the present term and not yet [officially] reported.