Case Name: INKS v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1938-02-02
Citations: 114 S.W.2d 1184
Docket Number: No. 19347
Parties: INKS v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 114
Pages: 1184–1186

Head Matter:
INKS v. STATE.
No. 19347.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 2, 1938.
Rehearing Denied April 6, 1938.
Polk Shelton, of Austin, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
KRUEGER, Judge.
Appellant was convicted of the offense of bookmaking, pool selling, and taking a bet on a horse race, and his punishment was assessed at a fine of $200 and confinement in the county jail for a period of 30 days.
Appellant's first complaint is that the court erred in declining to sustain his motion to quash the complaint and information. In the case of Mervin Ash v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 114 S.W.2d 889, recently decided but not yet reported [in State Report], a similar complaint and information was upheld, and, for the reasons there assigned, we overrule appellant's contention.
Appellant next contends that the court erred in declining to sustain his motion to dismiss this case because the law with reference to bookmaking, pool selling, etc., has been amended to make the same a felony, and that he desired to be tried under the amended law.
It is true that the maximum punishment prescribed for said offense under the law, as amended on June 25, 1937, increased the punishment for said offense to confinement in the State Penitentiary from 1 to 5 years; however, the minimum punishment has not been materially changed.
Moreover, the amendment was not in effect at the time appellant was tried on July 20, 1937. It did not become effective until September 25, 1937, some 2 months later. Plence the court committed no error in overruling said motion. See article 13, P.C.
Finding no error in the record, the judgment of the trial court 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.