Court Opinion

ID: 3969693
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:28:39.500047+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:00.002172
License: Public Domain

Appellant moves for a rehearing, asserting that by the provisions of Chapter 274, Acts Regular Session Fortieth Legislature, the offense of manslaughter, for which he was convicted, was abolished; and further that while the Act had not become effective at the time this case was affirmed on original hearing, it has since gone into effect, and that he is therefore entitled to the benefit of the repeal of said manslaughter statute, and that upon this hearing we should hold that the statute under which he was convicted is no longer effective. Said Act became effective June 15, 1927. We find that by an Act of the Legislature which went into effect June 9, 1927, which Act is Chapter 8, First Called Session, Fortieth Legislature, that said Chapter 274, supra, was amended so that same now specifically provides that no offense committed prior to the taking effect of said Chapter 274, as originally passed by the Regular Session of the Fortieth Legislature, should be affected by the provisions of said Act, but that such offender should be proceeded against and punished under the law as it existed prior to the taking effect of said Chapter 274, and as if said Act had never been enacted. In our opinion this Act which is contained in said Chapter 8, supra, controls the disposition of appellant's motion. His offense and his conviction therefore occurred prior to the Act of the Legislature repealing the manslaughter statute. *Page 663 
Prior to the final disposition of his case on appeal, the Legislature, as above set out, has specifically provided that the repeal of the manslaughter statute shall not affect the disposition of cases against offenders who had offended against or been convicted for violation of said statute prior to its repeal. Believing ourselves bound by the provisions of the Act last mentioned, and that appellant is not entitled to the relief sought, the motion for rehearing will be overruled.
Overruled.