Case Name: CANSLER v. STATE
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1922-02-08
Citations: 237 S.W. 555
Docket Number: No. 6648
Parties: CANSLER v. STATE.
Judges: 
Reporter: South Western Reporter
Volume: 237
Pages: 555–555

Head Matter:
CANSLER v. STATE.
(No. 6648.)
(Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
Feb. 8, 1922.)
Criminal law <©=j!5 — On repeal of statute making certain offense a crime, convictions in cases pending at time of repeal reversed.
In the amendment to the Dean Law, enacted by Acts 37th Leg., First Called Sess. (1921) c. 61, the omission of possession of equipment for manufacturing intoxicating liquor operated as a repeal of the provisions making their possession illegal, and this, under the statutes, requires a reversal of convictions in cases pending against parties charged with that offense at the time of passing the amendment.
Appeal from District Court, Rusk County; Chas. L. Brachfield, Judge.
A. C. Cansler was convicted of possessing equipment for the purpose of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and he appeals.
Reversed, and prosecution ordered dismissed.
Gray & Stone and R. T. Jones, all of Henderson, for appellant.
R. G. Storey, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
LATTIMORE, J.
Appellant was convicted in the district court of Rusk county of the offense of possessing equipment for the purpose of manufacturing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary.
By the amendment to what is known as the Dean Law, enacted by the First Called Session of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature (Acts 1921, c. 61), the possession of equipment for manufacturing intoxicating liquor was omitted from the Dean Law, which operated as a repeal of the provisions making such possession illegal, which under the provisions of our statutes necessitate the reversal of cases pending against parties charged with such offense at the time of the passage of such amendment. Petit v. State, 235 S. W. 579; Francis v. State, 235 S. W. 580.
For the reasons set forth, the judgment of the trial court will be reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed.
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