Court Opinion

ID: 9674619
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:31:50.534544+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:28.512320
License: Public Domain

WOODLEY, Presiding Judge,
concurring.
As I see it, the Legislature had authority to adopt and establish an election code without repealing the penal provisions of existing statutes and to provide a punishment by fine or imprisonment for the violation of certain of its provisions, without any reference in the caption to its penal provisions. Ex Parte Jimenez, 159 Texas 183, 317 S.W. 2d 189, 193; Doeppenschmidt v. International and G.N.R. Co., 101 S.W. 2d 1080; Johnson v. Martin et al, 12 S.W. 321.
The provision in the caption that nothing in the election code shall be construed as repealing or in any way affecting the legality of any penal provision of the existing law does not suggest to me that the statute contains no penal provision. This is especially true because one or more of the acts for which a fine or imprisonment is provided in the election code do not appear to have been punishable as offenses under existing statutes.
Eliminating Art. 14.08 (g) and Arts. 262 to 269 P.C., I agree that the doing of the acts set forth in the indictment is punishable under Art. 302 P.C., which defines the offense of perjury, and that the relator should be remanded to custody.