Case Name: LEE v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-12-21
Citations: 235 S.W. 1094
Docket Number: No. 6494
Parties: LEE v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 235
Pages: 1094–1094

Head Matter:
LEE v. STATE.
(No. 6494.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Dec. 21, 1921.)
Intoxicating liquors <©=>132 — Law punishing possession held repealed.
The law punishing the offense of possessing intoxicating liquor was so amended by the First Called Session of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature (Laws 1921, c. 61), as to amount to a repeal of the statute.
Appeal from District Court, Smith County; J. R. Warren, Judge.
Charlie Lee was convicted of possessing intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Reversed, and cause ordered dismissed.
Butler, Price & Maynor, of Tyler, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Smith county of the offense of possessing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary. '
The law defining and punishing this offense was so amended by the recent Special Session of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature (chapter 61) as to amount to a repeal of the statute, and for this reason this cause must be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed. Cox v. State (No. 6423) 234 S. W. 531; Petit v. State (No. 6510) 235 S. W. 579, decided at the present term and not yet [officially] reported.