Court Opinion

ID: 4998176
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-09-30 16:30:19.984899+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:17:00.766593
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HAWKINS, J.
Conviction was for possessing intoxicating liquor. Punishment, iy3 years in the penitentiary.
[1,2] Acts of the Thirty-Seventh Legislature, First and Second Called Sessions, p. 233, so amended the Prohibition Law (Acts 36th Leg. [1919] 2d Called Sess. c. 78) as tS mate it no longer an offense to have possession of intoxicating liquor unless had for the purpose of sale. Under many decisions of the court heretofore rendered construing the effect of the amendment, it is necessary to allege and prove that possession of intoxicating liquor was for the purpose of sale, and, such allegation not appearing in the indictment in the instant case, it becomes necessary to reverse the judgment of the trial court and dismiss the prosecution under the present indictment.