Andres v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of having in his possession certain equipment for making liquor capable of producing intoxication, and his punishment fixed at three years confinement in the penitentiary.

In his first bill of exceptions appellant complains of the jurisdiction of the court, wherein he contends that the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has exclusive jurisdiction of said offense by virtue of the provisions of the P. C. of the laws of the United States of America, and embodied in what is known as the Volstead Act. The appellant’s contention in…