Court Opinion

ID: 9665166
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 00:42:03.360205+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:15:13.556802
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ON appellant’s motion for rehearing.
WOODLEY, Judge.
Appellant urges that the punishment for the offense charged is by fine not exceeding $50 as provided in Sec. 3 of Art. 666-4(c), Vernon’s Ann. P. C.
In Shafer v. State, 151 Tex. Cr. R. 558, 209 S.W. (2) 599, we held that such fine was applicable only to violations of Sec. 4(c) of said Art. 666, Vernon’s Ann. P.C.
This prosecution was under Sec. 4(a) of Art. I, Ch. 467, Acts of the 44th Leg., 2nd C.S., as last amended by S.B. 117, Acts of the 48th Leg., Ch. 325, Sec. 2, p. 509. (Art. 666-4(a), Vernon’s Ann. P. C.).
The punishment provided for the offense charged is fixed in Sec. 8 of the amended act, (Art. 666-41, Vernon’s Ann. P.C.), at a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1000 or by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment.
A close examination of Art. 666-4, Vernon’s Ann. P.C., will reveal that subsection (a) of said article was passed in the Legislature as a separate act from subsection (c) of said article. The act containing subsection (a) is found in Ch. 325, Acts of the 48th Leg., whereas subsection (c) is found as a part of Ch. 221, Acts of the 48th Leg. These two acts were compiled by Vernon under the same article.
Appellant’s motion for rehearing is overruled.
Opinion approved by the court.