Court Opinion

ID: 4998133
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-30 16:30:04.013364+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:17:00.692656
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MORROW, P. J.
The conviction is for the ■unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor.
The indictment fails to allege that the liquor was possessed for the purpose of sale.
The law, as amended by Acts 37th Leg. 1st Called Sess. c. 61, requires that the case be reversed and remanded. The prosecution cannot be maintained upon the present indictment. See Francis v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 235 S. W. 580, and Ex parte Mitchum (Tex. Cr. App., No. 6772) 237 S. W. 936, not yet [officially] reported.
The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed,

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