Butler v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

An information was filed against appellant under Art. 942 of the Penal Code charging him with unlawfully possessing and carrying a seine and net within certain prohibited territory therein particularly set out.

Appellant was convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of twenty-five dollars and confinement in jail for thirty days.

Motion was made to quash the aforesaid information because same did not set forth the offense in plain and intelligible words, because same was duplicitous and because same did not negative the exceptions contained in Arts. 942 and 943 of the Penal…