Case Name: VOLNEY v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-03-08
Citations: 238 S.W. 220
Docket Number: No. 6730
Parties: VOLNEY v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 238
Pages: 220–221

Head Matter:
VOLNEY v. STATE.
(No. 6730.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
March 8, 1922.)
Criminal law <®=>I5 — Prosecution dismissed on repeal of statute.
Where the statute for violation of which the defendant was convicted was repealed after conviction, the prosecution will be dismissed.
Appeal. from Criminal District Court, Williamson County; James R. Hamilton, Judge.
Joe Volney was convicted of having unlawful possession of equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Judgment reversed, and prosecution ordered dismissed.
Critz & Dawhon, of Taylor, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, P. J.
The conviction is for the unlawful possession of equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.
The offense upon which the judgment rests having been repealed since the conviction, the judgment must be reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed. See Francis v. State (Tex. Or. App.) 235 S. W. 580.
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