Case Name: LANGFORD v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1935-03-27
Citations: 80 S.W.2d 972
Docket Number: No. 17479
Parties: LANGFORD v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 80
Pages: 972–973

Head Matter:
LANGFORD v. STATE.
No. 17479.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 27, 1935.
Parker & Parker, of Comanche, for appellant
Lloyd W. Davidson, .State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Conviction for possessing equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment one year in the penitentiary.
The indictment in this case contained two counts. The second count alone was submitted to the jury. Said count charges as follows : " Langford did then and there unlawfully possess equipment for the manufacture of liquor, said equipment being then and there capable of producing intoxication." The indictment is manifestly insufficient. It is not enough to say that "said equipment being then, and there capable of producing intoxication." If the indictment had stated that appellant possessed equipment for the manufacture of liquor capable of producing intoxication, this would have been bad under the case of Offield v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 75 S.W.(2d) 882.
For the reasons stated, the judgment will be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.