Case Name: Tommie Cook v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1921-10-12
Citations: 90 Tex. Crim. 646
Docket Number: No. 5958
Parties: Tommie Cook v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 90
Pages: 646–648

Head Matter:
Tommie Cook v. The State.
No. 5958.
Decided October 12, 1921.
Rehearing denied January 25, 1922.
1. — Intoxicating Liquor — Transporting—Possession—Duplicitious—Pleading.
Where, upon trial of transporting intoxicating liquors, etc., the indictment in the second count was obnoxious on motion to squash, to the rule of duplicitious pleading, the motion to quash should have been sustained. Following Todd v. State, 89 Texas Crim. Rep., 99.
2. — Same—Rehearing—Possession—Repeal of Law — Saving Clause Omitted.
While the second count in the indictment was duplicitious, yet the third count charging possession was good under the law as it was when the in dictment was presented, and the case tried, but since the amendment repealing the possession of intoxicating liquors, the same is not now made an offense, unless the same is for the purpose of sale; and there being no saving clause in the amendment, the judgment must be reversed and the cause dismissed, and no further prosecution can be had under that count.
Appeal from the District Court of McLennan. Tried below before the Honorable Richard I. Munroe.
Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully possessing and transporting intoxicating liquors, etc.; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary.
The opinion states the case.
Williams & Williams, and John B. McNamara, for appellant.
R. H. Hamilton, Assistant Attorney General, and Frank B. Tirey, and F. M. Fitzpatrick, for the State.

Opinion:
MORROW, PrusidiNG Judge.
The conviction is for possessing and transporting intoxicating liquors; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for one year.
The count in the indictment submitted to the jury charged that appellant did "receive, transport, export and deliver and solicit and take orders for, and did furnish, spirituous, vinous and intoxicating liquors."
The motion to quash the indictment, in substance, upon the ground that it attempted to charge several distinct felonies in the same count, was overruled.
The prosecution is under Chapter 78, First and Second Called Sessions, Laws of 1919. The count in the indictment is in practically the same language as that before the court in the case of Todd v. State, 89 Texas Crim. Rep., 99, 229 S. W. Rep., 515. For the reasons there stated, the indictment in the instant case was defective, and there was error in refusing to sustain the motion to quash it.
The judgment is therefore reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
Dismissed.