Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, 1935

Morgan v. State

Morgan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas · Decided January 30, 1935 · Hawkins
78 S.W.2d 1115 (South Western Reporter, Second Series)

Morgan v. State

Opinion of the Court

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for transporting intoxicating liquor; punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

The indictment is fatally defective under the recent holding of this court in Offield v. State, 75 S.W.(2d) 882, and Haynie v. State, *111676 S.W.(2d) 133, and numerous oilier cases following the Offield Case, supra.

The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed under the present indictment.

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