Melley v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
MORROW, Presiding Judge.
Conviction is for the unlawful manufacture of inotxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.
The indictment was duplicitous. It charged the unlawful manufacture of intoxicating liquors and the unlawful possession of such liquors for the purpose of sale in the same count. (See Todd v. State, Texas Crim. Rep., 99, 229 S. W. Rep., 516.)
In submitting the case to the jury the court eliminated one of the offenses. In the motion for arrest of judgmentj the appellant assails the verdict upon the ground that the indictment,…
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