Case Name: MORDECAI v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1937-02-24
Citations: 102 S.W.2d 414
Docket Number: No. 18833
Parties: MORDECAI v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter Second Series
Volume: 102
Pages: 414–415

Head Matter:
MORDECAI v. STATE.
No. 18833.
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 24, 1937.
C. Y. Welch, of Quanah, for appellant.
Lloyd W. Davidson, State’s Atty., of Austin, for the State.

Opinion:
HAWKINS, Judge.
Conviction is for possessing whisky for the purpose of sale in local option territory, punishment being assessed at a fine of $100»
The State's testimony came from two officers who discovered the facts related by them as the result of a search under a search warrant. Objection was interposed on the g-round that under our present law —the Texas Liquor Control Act (Vernon's Ann.P.C. art. 666 — 1 et seq.) — no search warrant is authorized. The objection should have been sustained. The former law authorizing search warrants for liquor was specifically repealed by the Texas Liquor Control Act. See Greenway v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 101 S.W. (2d) 569, opinion February 3, 1937; Slack v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 102 S.W. (2d) 414, opinion February 17, 1937; Rone v. State (Tex.Cr.App.) 101 S.W.(2d) 1017, opinion February 17, 1937.
The judgment is reversed and the cause remanded.