Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 1922

Jordan v. State

Jordan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided April 5, 1922 · Hawkins
239 S.W. 946; 91 Tex. Crim. 417; 1922 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 226 (South Western Reporter)

Jordan v. State

Opinion of the Court

HAWKINS, Judge.

—Appellant was convicted for having in his possession equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. Punishment was assessed at three years in the penitentiary.

Chapter 61, Acts Thirty-seventh Legislature, 1st and 2d Called Sessions 1921, amending Chapter 78 of the Acts of the 36th Legislature, 2d Called Session, 1919, has been held to have repealed Section 1 of said Chapter 78 in so far as it made the possession of the equipment for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor a crime. See Vernon’s Ann. P. C., Article 16; Cox v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep., 256 ; 234 S. W. Rep. 531; McCowan v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep. 264, 234 S. W. Rep. 887; Betts v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep., 203, 235 S. W. Rep. 597; Harris v. State, 236 S. W. Rep. 467; Kitchen v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep. 536, 236 S. W. Rep. 476; Stephenson v. State, 90 Texas Crim. Rep. 549, 236 S. W. Rep. 477.

The judgment of the trial court must be reversed and the prosecution ordered dismissed.

Reversed and dismissed.

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