Berry v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Medina County Court; H. E. Haass, Judge. W. E. Berry was convicted of bunting in inclosed and posted lands of another containing more than 2,000 acres, and he appeals.
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Appeal from Medina County Court; H. E. Haass, Judge. W. E. Berry was convicted of bunting in inclosed and posted lands of another containing more than 2,000 acres, and he appeals. First Assignment of Error in Two Sections— Section A: The court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the information and affidavit filed in this cause, charging appellant with unlawfully and knowingly hunting on the inclosed and posted lands of C. B. Woodward without his consent, for the reason that said affidavit and information charges no offense against the laws of the state of Texas, in that said…
1Opinion of the CourtHarper, J.
Appellant was prosecuted and convicted of hunting in inclosed lands of another, said inclosure being posted and containing more than 2,000 acres. Appellant admitted that the pasture was inclosed, posted, and contained more than 2,000 acres of land in the inclosure; his whole contention being that no law of this state made it an offense to hunt in such an inclosure.
[1] His first contention is that the act of the Legislature of 1899 repealed article 804 of the Penal Code (Acts of 1895), and that *635the Act of the Legislature of 1903 repealed ■the act of 1899. By reference to the acts it will be…
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