Coleman v. State

MORROW, Judge.

The appellant is convicted of transporting intoxicating liquor in violation of Section 3 of the Acts of the Thirty-fifth Legislature, Fourth Called Session, Chapter 24, known as the Statewide Prohibition Law. This Act has been since superseded, but was in force at the time the offense was committed. Its efficacy is challenged upon the proposition that Section 2 of the same Act, which prohibited the sale of intoxicating liquors, was held inoperative in the case of Ex parte Myer, 84 Texas Crim. Rep., 288, 207 S. W. Rep., 100, and that therefrom the result followed that the…