Case ID: sw_238/html/0919-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORROW, P. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

McLAUGHLIN v. STATE.
    (No. 6764.)
    (Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 22, 1922.)
    Criminal law &wkey;»l5 — Prosecution for unlawful possession of. equipment for making liquor under a repealed act must abate.
    Under Pen. Code 1911, art. 16, where the act denouncing unlawful possession of equipment for manufacturing intoxicating liquors has been repealed, a conviction based thereon cannot stand.
    Appeal from District Court, Hale County; R. C. Joiner, Judge.
    Pat McDaughlin was convicted of the unlawful possession of equipment for manufacture of intoxicating liquor,'and he appeals.
    Reversed, and prosecution ordered dismissed.
    R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.
   MORROW, P. J.

The conviction is for the unlawful possession of equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor.

The conviction cannot stand for the' reason that the act denouncing the offense was repealed, and, under article 16 of the Penal Code, the prosecution must abate. Cox v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 234 S. W. 531.

The judgment is reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.