Case Name: CONWAY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1929-04-10
Citations: 16 S.W.2d 228
Docket Number: No. 12464
Parties: CONWAY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 16
Pages: 228–228

Head Matter:
CONWAY v. STATE.
(No. 12464.)
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
April 10, 1929.
B. L. Palmer, of Houston, for appellant.
A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Conviction for wantonly and willfully killing a dog; . punishment, a fine of $25.
The 1911 Penal Code of this state, article 1231, provided that one who willfully and wantonly killed a domestic animal, etc., specifically naming and including therein dogs, should be punished as provided. For some reason the 1925 revision of our Penal Code failed to bring forward said article, and the act described in the complaint against this appellant is not now an offense against the law. It being provided by our Constitution and statute that no person shall be punished for any offense not specifically denounced and defined, it becomes necessary for us- to reverse this judgment.
The judgment of conviction will be reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.