Legal Opinion

Morgan v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided January 30, 1935No. 17193Published

1Opinion of the Court

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for transporting intoxicating liquor; punishment assessed at one year in the penitentiary.

The indictment is fatally defective under the recent holding of this court in Offield v. State, 75 S.W.(2d) 882, and Haynie v. State, *111676 S.W.(2d) 133, and numerous oilier cases following the Offield Case, supra.

The judgment is reversed, and the prosecution ordered dismissed under the present indictment.

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Offield v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1934
  2. Haynie v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1934