Case ID: tex-crim_170/html/0544-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MORRISON, Judge", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Oliver Merwin Hanson v. State
    No. 32,931.
    February 8, 1961
    No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.
    
      Dan Walton, District Attorney, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., Assistant District Attorney, Houston, and Leon Douglas, State’s Attorney, Austin, for the state.
   MORRISON, Judge

The offense is carrying a pistol, the punishment, 60 days in jail and a fine of $25.00.

Article 483, V.A.P.C., which denounces the offense with which appellant was charged, provides that the punishment for a violation thereof shall be by a fine or imprisonment. It does not provide for both.

This exact question was before this court in Everett v. State, 154 Tex. Cr. R. 262, 226 S.W. 2d 873, and we there held that the punishment assessed was not authorized by the statute and reversed the conviction.

It is so ordered in this case.