Braden v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted in the District Court of Lamar County of transporting intoxicating liquor, and his punishment fixed at one year in the penitentiary.

The date of the offense as laid in the indictment was prior to the taking effect of the amendment to the Dean Law in November, 1921, which placed the exceptions to the statute in a separate section of the law from the enacting clause, since which time we have uniformly held it not necessary to negative such exceptions in the indictment. ' A motion was made to quash this indictment because the exceptions were negatived…