Case Name: VRAZEL v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-06-01
Citations: 233 S.W. 842
Docket Number: No. 6226
Parties: VRAZEL v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 233
Pages: 842–843

Head Matter:
VRAZEL v. STATE.
(No. 6226.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
June 1, 1921.
Rehearing Denied Oct. 12, 1921.)
Indictment and information <©=^125(42) — Count in indictment for manufacturing and possessing liquor hold duplicitous.
A count in an indictment charging that accused manufactured “and” possessed intoxicating liquor was duplicitous, each of such offenses not necessarily involving the other.
Appeal from District Court, Milam County; John Watson, Judge.
Henry Vrazel was convicted of manufacturing and possessing intoxicating liquors, and appeals.
Reversed, and cause ordered dismissed.
R. Lyles, B. P. Matoeha, and Roht. M. Lyles, all of Cameron, and T. H. McGregor, of Austin, for appellant. ■
R. H. Hamilton, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Milam county for manufacturing and possessing intoxicating liquor, not for medicinal, mechanical, scientific, or sacramental purposes, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
There were two counts in the indictment. The trial court submitted only the second, which charged that appellant manufactured and possessed the liquor in question; the jury being told in the charge that if they found appellant unlawfully manufactured or possessed such liquor they should convict. .A motion to quash said count upon the ground that same was duplicitous and charged therein two separate and distinct felonies was overruled, and our Assistant Attorney General concedes in his brief that under the authority of Todd v. State, 229 S. W. 515, this was error. Finding ourselves in accord with his position, without discussion of the other matters raised on the appeal,' the judgment will be reversed, and the cause ordered dismissed.
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