Case Name: Floyd EWING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1956-02-15
Citations: 286 S.W.2d 938
Docket Number: No. 28024
Parties: Floyd EWING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 286
Pages: 938–939

Head Matter:
Floyd EWING, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 28024.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 15, 1956.
R. E. Murphey, Coleman, Runge, Harde-man, Smith & Foy, by Earl W. Smith, San Angelo, for appellant.
Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Presiding Judge.
The offense is the possession of whiskey-in a dry area, with a prior offense of like character alleged for the purpose of enhancement; the punishment, 30 days in jail and a fine of $500.
Our able State's Attorney has confessed error because of the absence of any proof that the appellant was the same person who was convicted in the prior case plead for enhancement.
Such proof is requisite. Gaines v. State, Tex.Cr.App., 274 S.W.2d 397.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.