U. S. Petit v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Angelina. Tried below before the Honorable L. D. Guinn. Appeal from a conviction of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor; penalty, one year imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case. Cited: Weeks v. U. S., 232 U. S., 383; Boyd v. U. S., 116 U. S., 616; Amos v. U. S., U. S. Advanced Sheets, Page 316; 1920-21. Cited: Roberts v. State, recently decided.
1Opinion of the Court
LATTIMORE, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Angelina County of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.
Since the conviction of this appellant, what is known as the Dean Law was amended at a Special Session of the Thirty-seventh Legislature. Prior to said amendment, Section 1 of said Dean-Law read as. follows:
“That it shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly,, to manufacture, sell, barter, exchange, transport, export, receive, deliver, solicit, take orders for, furnish or possess, spirituous,…
2Cited by33 opinions
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