Case Name: RAMSEY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1923-02-14
Citations: 250 S.W. 674
Docket Number: No. 7444
Parties: RAMSEY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 250
Pages: 674–675

Head Matter:
RAMSEY v. STATE.
(No. 7444.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 14, 1923.
Rehearing Denied May 9, 1923.)
1. Criminal law <®=598(3)— Absence of witnesses who promised to voluntarily appear no ground for continuance. .
Representations by witnesses that they would voluntarily come and testify for defendant do not justify reliance thereon or present any excuse for not taking their depositions, so that their absence is not a ground for a continuance.
2. Intoxicating liquors <©=>236(20) — Conviction of transporting sustained.
Evidence tha.t defendant was driving a car containing liquor, and fled from the scene of an accident which revealed the presence of such liquor, helé sufficient to sustain a conviction of transporting intoxicating liquor.
On Motion for Rehearing.
3. Intoxicating liquors <©=>13 — Act requiring permit for manufacture, sale, etc., for medicinal and other excepted purposes held not unconstitutional.
The Dean Law, as amended by Acts 37th Leg. 1st Called Sess. (1921) c. 61 (Vernon’s Amu Pen. Code Supp. 1922, art. 588¼ et seq.), requiring a permit for the manufacture, sale, etc., of intoxicating liquors for medicinal, mechanical, scientific, or sacramental purposes, helé not invalid'as contrary to the constitutional amendment forbidding the manufacture, sale, etc., of such liquors except for such purposes.
4.Intoxicating liquors <©=>221 — Indictment charging unlawful transportation for other than medicinal, mechanical, scientific, or sacramental purposes held sufficient.
An indictment charging unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquors for other than medicinal, mechanical, scientific, or sacramental purposes helé not fundamentally defective as charging no offense, irrespective of the question as to the validity of Acts 37th Leg. 1st Called Sess. (1921) " c. 61 - (Yernon’s Ann. Pen. Code Supp. 1922, art. 588½ et seq.), requiring a permit for the manufacture, sale, etc., of intoxicating liquors for such purposes, the question of such permit being of no concern to one not transporting liquors for one of such purposes.
Appeal from District Court, Titus County; R. T. Wilkinson, Judge.
Elgin Ramsey was convicted of transporting intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Affirmed.
I. N. Williams, of Mt. Pleasant, for appellant'.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Titus county of transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
The indictment in this case was returned ori January 6, 1922, and the case was called for trial in June of said year. Appellant then presented an application for continuance based on the absence of two witnesses, one of whom was alleged to live in Arkansas and the other in Louisiana. It is stated that both of said witnesses had assured appellant that they would voluntarily come and testify in his behalf. Such representation affords no justification of reliance thereon, and presents no excuse for not taking the deposition of said witnesses in accordance with our statute. The testimony is ample to show that appellant was driving a oar in which there was a large quantity of liquor on the occasion in question. A car accident revealed the presence of said liquor. Appellant fled. The evidence supports the verdict
Finding no error in the record, an affirmance is ordered.
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