Case Name: BAKER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-03-01
Citations: 238 S.W. 226
Docket Number: No. 6663
Parties: BAKER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 238
Pages: 226–226

Head Matter:
BAKER v. STATE.
(No. 6663.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 1, 1922.)
Criminal law <&wkey;15 — Intoxicating liquors <&wkey; 132 — Statute making penal possession of equipment for manufacture of intoxicating liquor held repealed and prosecution based thereon dismissed.
That feature of the Dean Law, making penal the possession of equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquors, was repealed by its omission from the amended sections of that statute, and a prosecution based thereon must be dismissed.
Appeal from District Court, Bell County; M. B. Blair, Judge.
J. A. Baker, alias J. Warren, was convicted of possessing equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Reversed, and prosecution dismissed.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Bell county of possessing equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at three years in the penitentiary.
That feature of the Dean Law (Acts 36th Leg. 1st & 2d Callen Sess. [1919] c. 78), making penal the possession of equipment for the purpose of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, having been repealed by ' its omission from the amended sections of said statute passed by the First Called Session of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature (Acts 37th Leg. 1st Called Sess. [1921] c. 61), under the numerous authorities we are compelled to reverse and dismiss the instant prosecution, and it is so ordered. Francis v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 235 S. W. 580; Petit v. State. (Tex. Cr. App.) 235 S. W. 579.