Case Name: OFFIELD v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1934-06-27
Citations: 75 S.W.2d 882
Docket Number: No. 16725
Parties: OFFIELD v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 75
Pages: 882–884

Head Matter:
OFFIELD v. STATE.
No. 16725.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 27, 1934.
Rehearing Granted Oct. 31, 1934.
A. T. Folsom, of Wink, for appellant.
William L. Kerr, Dist. Atty., of Pecos, and Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
CHRISTIAN, Judge.
The offense is possession of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of sale; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for one year.
The indictment charges, in substance, that on or about the 15th day of March, A. D. 1933, appellant, in Winkler county, Tex., possessed for the purpose of sale intoxicating liquor.
No statement of facts is brought forward, the sole attack being on the sufficiency of the indictment, which question was raised in the motion in arrest of judgment. In the charge the court instructed the jury that whisky is a spirituous liquor capable of producing intoxication. We assume that, the instruction was applicable to the facts, and that the liquor involved was whisky.
It appears to be appellant's contention that since the passage of chapter 116, Acts of the 43d Legislature at its Regular Session 1933 (see Vernon's Ann, P. 0. art. 694a), the indictment is insufficient. This contention is identical with that made and overruled in the case of W. I. Butts v. State of Texas (Tex. Cr. App.) 73 S.W.(2d) 96, delivered May 23, 1934.
The judgment is affirmed.
PER CURIAM.
The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.