Case Name: Oliver Merwin HANSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1961-02-08
Citations: 342 S.W.2d 648
Docket Number: No. 32931
Parties: Oliver Merwin HANSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 342
Pages: 648–648

Head Matter:
Oliver Merwin HANSON, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.
No. 32931.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 8, 1961.
No attorney for appellant of record on appeal.
Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Samuel H. Robertson, J'r., Asst. Dist. Atty., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State’s Atty., Austin, for' the State.

Opinion:
MORRISON, Judge.
The offense is carrying a pistol; the punishment, 60 days in jail and a fine of $25.
Article 483, Vernon's Ann.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.